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A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.
https://age-encryption.org
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Way to detect age key type of an encrypted file? #170

Closed e-zk closed 3 years ago

e-zk commented 3 years ago

To determine the key type of an encrypted secret, currently I am reading the file's header.
If you open an encrypted file in a text editor it will clearly show -> ssh-rsa ..., -> scrypt ..., etc on the second line.

Is this the proper way of determining a secret's key type (reading the raw header of the secret, and checking it) or is there a function within the spec/library to do this for me?

Or is it instead advised that I should enforce a specific key type for secrets in my projects?

codesoap commented 3 years ago

This issue overlaps with #56.