I’m Now a Full-Time Professional Open Source Maintainer

or, "Holy shit, it works!" Last May I left my job on the Go team at Google to experiment with more sustainable paths for open-source maintainers. I held on to my various maintainer hats Go cryptography, transparency tooling, age, mkcert, yubikey-agent…, iterated on the model since September, and ...

My age+YubiKeys Password Management Solution

Password managers are in the news, and its the holidays, so its as good a time as ever to describe my password and secret management setup. Its very much not for everyone, but its minimal, simple, and has some interesting security properties: even if my laptop were compromised, it would take an...

age and Authenticated Encryption

age is a file encryption format, tool, and library. It was made to replace one of the last remaining GnuPG use cases, but it was not made to replace GnuPG because in the last 20 years we learned that cryptographic tools work best when they are specialized and opinionated instead of flexible Swiss...

[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: age-1.0.0-5.fc35

A simple, modern and secure encryption tool and Go library with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability...