Documentation bug in /README.md #encrypting-to-a-github-user about age HOT 2 CLOSED

So this will not work properly if you have more than one (ssh key).

Why do you say that? The -R flag accepts a list of recipients, and any of the corresponding private keys can be used to decrypt. Which seems like excellent default behavior.

from age.

SSH key support is a convenience feature, not the "proper" way to use age. Most GitHub accounts have auth SSH keys but not signing SSH keys, so supporting the latter would make little sense. We know we are taking a license on the intended purpose of the keys.

From the README

As a convenience feature, age also supports encrypting to ssh-rsa and ssh-ed25519 SSH public keys [...]

Keep in mind that people might not protect SSH keys long-term, since they are revokable when used only for authentication [...]

from age.