# Age (encryption tool)

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/age-encryption-tool/12366
**Category:** Tool Suggestions
**Tags:** approved
**Created:** 2023-04-15T15:55:54Z
**Posts:** 5
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## Post 2 by @jonah — 2023-04-15T16:52:06Z

_Discussion continues from:_

> **[Recommend Age · privacyguides · Discussion #255](https://github.com/orgs/privacyguides/discussions/255)**
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> Description URL of affected page: https://privacyguides.org/software/productivity/#encrypt https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

> <https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/issues/845>
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> Following on from https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/pull/293#is…suecomment-1086547448
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> I think it might be worthwhile to have a "Security Advanced" section as well as the "Security Basics". I do want to write an article for the Basics section that incorporates what is https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/discussions/468
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> Likewise now that Infosec Handbook seems permanently offline, we could write an article which demonstrates [Minisign](https://web.archive.org/web/20210813101914/https://infosec-handbook.eu/tutorials/tool-minisign/), and [Signify](https://web.archive.org/web/20210814181026/https://infosec-handbook.eu/tutorials/tool-signify/) and their use with [Age](https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/).
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> I think advanced guides are actually good, as well, because even IT fluent people, including developers often need guidance.

@dngray I’m not sure why we’d mention a tool in an advanced guide that isn’t recommended software, so we could probably add this to the CLI tools section we already have on [https://www.privacyguides.org/en/encryption/](https://www.privacyguides.org/en/encryption/)…

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