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But I am not sure I will stick with gpg though. Even with my system to extend their expiration or renew them. I have found handling them to be a pain. I use them for 2 things: encrypt/decrypt gopass secrets and sign git commits. Gopass now has more than decent age support. A yubikey can hold an age key. Most git forges accept a ssh key to sign commits. 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Those utilities store their data in a git repo already by default, but rather than syncing those repos directly, I have set their upstream remotes to local bare repos which is what Syncthing actually syncs. 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But I am not sure I will stick with gpg though. Even with my system to extend their expiration or renew them. I have found handling them to be a pain. I use them for 2 things: encrypt/decrypt gopass secrets and sign git commits. Gopass now has more than decent age support. A yubikey can hold an age key. Most git forges accept a ssh key to sign commits. 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Those utilities store their data in a git repo already by default, but rather than syncing those repos directly, I have set their upstream remotes to local bare repos which is what Syncthing actually syncs. This avoids contention internal to the git repos which I could see causing some problems through normal git opera", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Two billion email addresses were exposed"}]}