Creating an age plugin for tlock

Wed, 09 Aug 2023 21:20:40 +0000

Given you have two tools that work on their own, with a similar interfaces, how complex can it be to integrate primitives from one tool into another? It turns out harder than expected. In this blog, I’ll discuss my experience understanding, designing, and implementing an age plugin for tlock.

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age is an encryption tool with opinionated cryptography, and a clean command line interface. It’s implemented in multiple languages such as Go or Rust, and has a flourishing ecosystem.

Chromium support for the Distributed Web

Thu, 20 Aug 2020 20:44:40 +0000

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Today, as part of a change by Frédéric Wang, Chromium allows website to register their ability to support distributed web URL schemes.

Website gateways, such as Cloudflare IPFS Gateway or IPFS.io would be able to use Chrome navigator API to serve Native DWeb URLs. These new schemes are the following:

Organisation	scheme	Example URL
Cabal Club	`cabal`	`cabal://1eef9ad64e284691b7c6f6310e39204b5f92765e36102046caaa6a7ff8c02d74`
Dat Foundation	`dat`	`dat://778f8d955175c92e4ced5e4f5563f69bfec0c86cc6f670352c457943666fe639/dat_intro.gif`
W3C	`did`	`did:example:123456`
	`dweb`
Ethereum Foundation	`ethereum`	`ethereum://0x89205a3a3b2a69de6dbf7f01ed13b2108b2c43e7/transfer?address=0x8e23ee67d1332ad560396262c48ffbb01f93d052&uint256=1`
Dat Foundation	`hyper`	`hyper://778f8d955175c92e4ced5e4f5563f69bfec0c86cc6f670352c457943666fe639/dat_intro.gif`
Protocol Labs	`ipfs`	`ipfs://QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/`
Protocol Labs	`ipns`	`ipns://en.wikipedia-on-ipfs.org/wiki/`
Scuttlebutt	`ssb`

They join the schemes registered at IANA that make it into web browsers.

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Creating an age plugin for tlock

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Chromium support for the Distributed Web

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