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# Generate age keys from passphrase
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## Description
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This utility (age-gen-passphrase) generates secret and public keys (into stdout) from your entered passphrase or piped stdin
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Strong password highly recomended
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## Password selection
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To keep entropy at at the same level of $\geq 2^{256}$ bits, as in private key of curve25519 (which is used in age encryption), you should use long password.
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Exact amount of required characters can be calculated by formula: $\lceil 256 / log_2(Nchars) \rceil$
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## TODO
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[X] piped/terminal output as raw/verbose
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[ ] handle broken pipe signal since program will so much depend on pipes
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