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File encryption using age instead of AES #37

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lescx opened this issue Apr 9, 2024 · 1 comment
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File encryption using age instead of AES #37

lescx opened this issue Apr 9, 2024 · 1 comment
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lescx commented Apr 9, 2024

Based on the roadmap, it is planned to support AES encryption. While I think it is a great idea to implement file encryption in a file manager, using AES is a bad idea. It is good enough for the web, but not a good tool to encrypt files on a hard drive. There are other tools that should be used for that.

Please have a look at age, a nice, small and lightning fast encryption tool written in Go. There is also a nice API for it. Crypto is hard but programming with age is not.

As mentioned in #36, I think encryption should be an optional feature. If you have age, you can encrypt files, otherwise you get a notification on which binary you need to install.

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yorukot commented Apr 10, 2024

I though AES is currently the best choice for encryption

But maybe I can do some quick research on this

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