jdx/fnox
encrypted/remote secret manager
Recommended between 2025-12-08 and 2026-06-25. Last pushed 2026-11-02.
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“I'm an fnox user who's unfamiliar with this space, and am curious what your critiques would be.”
— CharlesW, 2026-04-10 · strong recommendation · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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From a project perspective, is this for fun or is it meant to be a production solution? If the latter, what problem(s) are you trying to solve that established solutions like fnox don't? https://github.com/jdx/fnox (I'm an fnox user who's unfamiliar with this space, and am curious what your critiques would be.)
“have you looked at fnox[0][1]? Curious how you'd compare/contrast goals with that if so, I think I prefer that”
— bglusman, 2026-06-25 · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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This is an interesting motivation for the project... I kind of get it, but, have you looked at fnox[0][1]? Curious how you'd compare/contrast goals with that if so, I think I prefer that as its not coupled to a single encryption tool (age) but supports age as well as multiple cloud or local options behind one unified interface... I think it can even mix multiple stores together? but I may be missing something/didn't read thoroughly yet...maybe there's a reason fnox doesn't work as well with Nix? fnox was discussed here previously[2] [0] https://github.com/jdx/mise/discussions/6779 [1] https://github.com/jdx/fnox [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45722931
“There's also https://github.com/jdx/fnox”
— oulipo2, 2026-03-12 · original comment on Hacker News ↗
“I think I lean towards fnox (by the author of mise) - because of the flexibility and support for external storage:”
— e12e, 2025-12-08 · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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This looks nice, but I think I lean towards fnox (by the author of mise) - because of the flexibility and support for external storage: https://github.com/jdx/fnox
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