str4d/rage

Health v2 · maintenance only

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3633 stars · 160 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

rage is a Rust implementation of the age file encryption format, providing a simple, secure CLI tool and library with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability. It supports passphrase encryption, multiple recipients, and hardware tokens like YubiKeys via plugins.

Use cases

• encrypt files with a modern secure tool
• encrypt a file with a passphrase from the command line
• encrypt files to public keys in scripts
• decrypt age-encrypted files
• encrypt files to a YubiKey
• add file encryption to a Rust application
• pipe data through encryption in shell pipelines

When to choose

• you want simple, zero-config file encryption with secure defaults
• you need a cross-platform age implementation in Rust or as a library
• you want UNIX-style composability for encrypting streams in scripts
• you need hardware token support via age plugins

When to avoid

• you need full-disk or directory encryption rather than per-file encryption
• you need GPG's web-of-trust key management and signing features
• you need authenticated encryption with asymmetric key exchange beyond age's recipient model

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

cryptography security cli file-system security privacy developer-tools windows rust cli cross-platform age-encryption file-encryption unix-philosophy yubikey curve25519 encryption-tool command-line linux macos

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