Thanks for all the replies regarding the existing fork of pass. Did not know that, so consider this issue closed.
> Am 18.01.2023 um 14:00 schrieb Louis Bettens <[email protected]>: > > Hi, > > There already exists a fork of Pass that uses age as a backend.[1] Thus > there's no point in reinventing that in our branch. > > I will add that although Age has a lot going for it, I like my setup and will > keep using OpenPGP and thus GPG pass for the foreseeable future. Therefore I > will follow and contribute to a GPG branch. Feel free to try out passage > though. > > [1] https://github.com/FiloSottile/passage > > On 18.01.23 10:16, [email protected] wrote: >> Hello to all, >> >> the other day I was thinking about whether it might be time to replace GPG >> with >> another backend. age [1] is written in Go, seems to follow a similar >> philosophy >> as e.g. WireGuard (reasonable algorithms, no unnecessary configuration, ...) >> and >> is accepted by the community (about 12.7k stars on Github, if that means >> anything) and is open source and free. In the past, there have been two >> discussions on this mailing list about replacing GPG [2, 3]. At that time the >> discussion was stopped due to lack of alternatives. Now we have an >> alternative. >> A project that is 100% compatible with pass and has age as an optional >> backend >> is gopass [4]. However, in my opinion, the developers of gopass have >> overdone it >> and developed a software monolith that is far too complex. >> >> So: what do you think about the idea of replacing GPG with age as an >> encryption >> backend? >> >> P.S.: when age was designed, one of the goals of the developers was to >> become a >> backend of pass [5] :) (but I'm not sure how actual this goal is today). >> >> [1] https://github.com/FiloSottile/age >> [2] https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/password-store/2019-August/003732.html >> [3] https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/password-store/2020-October/004280.html >> [4] https://www.gopass.pw/ >> [5] >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/11yHom20CrsuX8KQJXBBw04s80Unjv8zCg_A7sPAX_9Y/view > <OpenPGP_0xDFE1D4A017337E2A.asc>
