Age Encryption Cheat Sheet

age is a simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.

🔑 Key Generation

age-keygen -o output_file.txt

🔒 Encrypt With Public Key

To Output File

age -R keyfile.txt -o outputfile.txt.age inputfile.txt

To Ascii Armored Output

age -R keyfile.txt -a inputfile.txt

🔓 Decrypt With Private Key

age -d -i private-key-path encrypted-file.age

🔒 Encrypt With Passphrase

Leave password blank when asked for randomly assigned passphrase

age -p secrets.txt > secrets.txt.age

🔓 Decrypt With Passphrase

age -d secrets.txt.age > secrets.txt