age-passgen/README.md
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Generate age keys from passphrase

Description

This utility (age-gen-passphrase) generates secret and public keys (into stdout) from your entered passphrase or piped stdin Strong password highly recomended

Password selection

To keep entropy at at the same level of \geq 2^256 bits, you should use long password. Exact amount of required characters can be calculated by formula: \ceil*{256 / log_2(Nchars)}