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by tobypadilla 2076 days ago
Hi! I'm one of the Charm co-founders.

We actually issue a new Charm specific SSH key for you. We then allow you to link machines together with our `charm` account utility. The symmetric keys used to encrypt data are encrypted for each public key linked to your account so you can access your data from multiple machines.

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Thanks for the explanation! Glad to hear you've thought out and handled the linking process.

Just out of curiosity: have you seen or considered age[1] for the symmetric pair? I've used it on a few projects where cryptographic flexibility wasn't necessary.

[1]: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

We actually ended up making our own encryption library that's based on age, it's called sasquatch (built by our team member muesli):

https://github.com/muesli/sasquatch