Vault is a well regarded project that is designed to solve a broader set of problems than Strongbox (i.e. Vault has many different backends, more auth solutions etc.). While there are third party solutions and plans to get more convenience functionality into Vault, we decided to focus on what you would get out of the box today.
"file secrets" was intended to be that you can input a binary file directly either in the CLI or GUI without having to manually base64 encode it first. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that is not currently possible with Vault? Strongbox used to require the user to base64 encode the binary file first as well.
Vault is a well regarded project that is designed to solve a broader set of problems than Strongbox (i.e. Vault has many different backends, more auth solutions etc.). While there are third party solutions and plans to get more convenience functionality into Vault, we decided to focus on what you would get out of the box today.
"file secrets" was intended to be that you can input a binary file directly either in the CLI or GUI without having to manually base64 encode it first. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that is not currently possible with Vault? Strongbox used to require the user to base64 encode the binary file first as well.