age seems to be the new hot thing to encrypt data.
However, when you generate a key pair, the private key just sits as a plaintext file on your computer.
Maybe I’m too used to PGP, but this makes me a bit nervous. There doesn’t see to be a key manager that allows you to pass in a key id with which you encrypt / decrypt. It’s all done using the public key directly in the command line (for encrypting), or the plaintext private key file (to decrypt).
Am I missing something? Is there a better / easier way to manage these private key files?
Have you actually used age?
Unlike gpg, encryption of the private key is not default (or straightforward). It also doesn’t have a key management system