Age is interesting. After doing extensive reading on the state of the art for file encryption, and collecting dozens of reference articles for further reading for my coworkers to do, I wrote envelope encryption along with a proprietary file encryption standard for a company I previously worked for.

It had only the basic features you’d want for cryptographic agility.

During my reading, I came across age and wanted our business to use it, but it was too early to make that call across the entire business. It had only been released the previous year.

It also missed one crucial feature, which I think is the biggest miss with age: lack of support for AES-256 GCM.

I understand the arguments for not including it.

I also understand that if you want absolutely no serious adoption, it’s fine not to include it.