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		todotask on Dec 28, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Age: A simple, modern and secure file encryption t... Is age designed to encrypt large binary files, which seem to increase the file size by 2KB.

str4d on Dec 28, 2019 [–]

Yes. age encrypts large files in 64 kiB chunks with 16 bytes of overhead per chunk, which strikes a balance between file size overhead and performance (particularly when seeking).

todotask on Dec 28, 2019 | [–]

That's interesting and seem to be an alternative to encrypted zip or 7z which could be used in productions?

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