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str4d / rage

A simple, secure and modern file encryption tool (and Rust library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.
https://age-encryption.org/v1
Apache License 2.0
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UX: Lost on next steps because of UTF-8 error #531

Open purung opened 2 months ago

purung commented 2 months ago

What were you trying to do

Encrypt an .mp4 file with passphrase. It worked with a different password so I guess the error is about the passphrase. I was not using anything that does not work in a normal password. Are there any requirements that weren't explicit?

What happened

Type passphrase (leave empty to autogenerate a secure one):
(typed a password)
Error: stream did not contain valid UTF-8

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str4d commented 3 weeks ago

Can you tell me the following: