Review tl;dr

Minimal dependencies, so easy to install and easy to use. Nice integration with git command line, but doesn't provide a great deal of functionality. Only supports shared secrets which is very limited as far as controlling access.

Product Summary

transcrypt is another in a relatively long of tools that focus on encrypting secrets in SCM. transcrypt is unique in that it uses openssl rather than gpg, like most similar tools.

Evaluation

It does what it does well, it just doesn't do very much. Pretty easy to install: it's available via brew, and since there are so few dependencies it's pretty easy to install manually. Requires a bit of manual-hacking of the git repo to add a file, but still pretty straightforward to use. Biggest liability is the lack of support for asymmetric encryption, so you can't revoke access for individual users.

Strengths

• very few dependencies
• .gitattributes modifications means that tig or git diff work as usual

Weaknesses

• No support for asymmetric encryption
• Only supports git

Ratings

• Ease of setup: good
• Easy of use: good
• Cloud readiness: good
• Datacenter readiness: good
• Automation / pipeline readiness: good
• Product maturity: fair
• Developer friendliness: good
• Documentation: fair
• Stability: good
• Auditability: poor