UX: age doesn't require -p for decryption of passphrase about rage HOT 3 CLOSED

The reason that I was using an explicit -p/--passphrase for decryption was that passphrase input was clobbering piped stdin, and I wanted the latter more. During my livestream today, I was pointed to the rpassword crate, which provides the same cross-platform fallback but doesn't clobber stdin! So I'll be pushing changes soon that remove this requirement.

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Rage is confusing to use indeed as its help says nothing about what IDENTITY is, so…

-i, --identity IDENTITY    identity to decrypt with (may be repeated)

$ rage -d -i age1*** file.txt.enc > file.txt
Error: The system cannot find the file specified. (os error 2)

It’s age that truly helps to understand that FILE is required, not a string.

-i, --identity KEY         Use the private key file at path KEY. Can be repeated.

Then it (silently) works as expected.

$ rage -d -i key.txt file.enc.txt > file.txt

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Hi! This is great usability feedback 🙂 Please open a new issue for this, instead of commenting on a closed issue.

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