Sear: An always-encrypted tar-like file archive format

Submitting this re: the recent discussion about PGP alternatives. It seems right in line with the types of tools that were being suggested for replacing specific use cases of PGP. Written by Tony Arcieri, who is well-regarded in the cryptography community.

When they said tar-like, I imagined they meant individual files could be extracted from an archive, but it seems not.

NOTE: sear is presently vaporware, so this won't do a whole lot yet.

What is the benefit of this over ZIP with extensions? That the headers are encrypted rather than falsified?

OrdoEmacs grows one step closer.