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> lack of support for AES-256 GCM

Why do you need AES ?

Age uses ChaCha20-Poly1305 which is more than good enough, and has the added benefit of being an algorithm that is optimised for software only implementation and doesn't need hardware support (e.g. AES-NI instruction set).

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Maybe he works for a company that does US government research? Maybe they require NIST approved algorithms. I'm pretty sure that would prevent the use of Age for file encryption.

Time to sponsor Age then.

He Used to work for the go cryptography team, taking a break now.

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