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Re:GPG-Tui, a Terminal User Interface for GnuPG by aborsy on Sunday May 30, 2021 @12:46AM (#27330680)
I wouldn’t hastily recommend unproven tools in the area security.

Here is an example of a cool tool with modern cryptography, forward secret etc, often recommended in HN as an alternative to Wormhole:

https://redrocket.club/posts/croc/

It turned out that plaintext could easily be recovered! One mistake and 100% broken.

There are benefits to an industry standard protocol.

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Re:GPG-Tui, a Terminal User Interface for GnuPG by throwaway45209 on Sunday May 30, 2021 @05:38AM (#27331942)
croc wasn't recommended by people on HN who knew something about cryptography, and they actually warned against it.

They recommended Brian Warner's magic-wormhole, Signal, Tarsnap, age, Signify, Minisign, libsodium.

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Re:GPG-Tui, a Terminal User Interface for GnuPG by cpach on Sunday May 30, 2021 @02:06AM (#27330978)
Signify and Age are not unproven.
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