Ask HN: Is there a portable encryption file format?

Re:Ask HN: Is there a portable encryption file format? by jqpabc123 on Thursday March 24, 2022 @10:37AM (#30790453)

Did you bother to read the web site?

You are free to use this software in your business, at home, or in your own open source development projects.

AES is a NIST standard so it is open spec, open source, free as in beer and speech. As for maintenance, the lack of it can be a good thing. This may mean none was required --- no bugs have been found.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there a portable encryption file format? by binwiederhier on Thursday March 24, 2022 @11:00AM (#30790828)

My apologies. It does say that it's open source on the website, you are right. I merely looked at the GitHub repository and that says at the bottom that it's retired and old code. And i couldn't find any new code posted.

Also, AES is an open standard yes. I was however talking about the file format that it it structures its files as. That is very much non trivial since there are salts, IVs, mode of operation, the actual cipher, ...

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Re:Ask HN: Is there a portable encryption file format? by jqpabc123 on Thursday March 24, 2022 @03:59PM (#30794651)

I was however talking about the file format that it it structures its files as.

Fully documented on the web site.

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