diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8cd0e79..6d0f17b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -21,9 +21,9 @@ An alternative interoperable Rust implementation is available at [github.com/str
 
 ```
 Usage:
-    age -r RECIPIENT [-a] [-o OUTPUT] [INPUT]
+    age (-r RECIPIENT | -R PATH)... [-a] [-o OUTPUT] [INPUT]
     age --passphrase [-a] [-o OUTPUT] [INPUT]
-    age --decrypt [-i KEY] [-o OUTPUT] [INPUT]
+    age --decrypt [-i KEY]... [-o OUTPUT] [INPUT]
 
 Options:
     -o, --output OUTPUT         Write the result to the file at path OUTPUT.
@@ -40,11 +40,13 @@ RECIPIENT can be an age public key, as generated by age-keygen, ("age1...")
 or an SSH public key ("ssh-ed25519 AAAA...", "ssh-rsa AAAA...").
 
 Recipient files contain one or more recipients, one per line. Empty lines
-and lines starting with "#" are ignored as comments.
+and lines starting with "#" are ignored as comments. "-" may be used to
+read recipients from standard input.
 
-KEY is a path to a file with age secret keys, one per line
-(ignoring "#" prefixed comments and empty lines), or to an SSH key file.
-Multiple keys can be provided, and any unused ones will be ignored.
+KEY is a path to a file with age secret keys, one per line (ignoring "#"
+prefixed comments and empty lines), or to an SSH key file. Multiple keys
+can be provided, and any unused ones will be ignored. "-" may be used to
+read keys from standard input.
 ```
 
 ### Multiple recipients
diff --git a/cmd/age/age.go b/cmd/age/age.go
index 8af316f..dc4c6aa 100644
--- a/cmd/age/age.go
+++ b/cmd/age/age.go
@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@ func (f *multiFlag) Set(value string) error {
 }
 
 const usage = `Usage:
-    age -r RECIPIENT [-a] [-o OUTPUT] [INPUT]
+    age (-r RECIPIENT | -R PATH)... [-a] [-o OUTPUT] [INPUT]
     age --passphrase [-a] [-o OUTPUT] [INPUT]
-    age --decrypt [-i KEY] [-o OUTPUT] [INPUT]
+    age --decrypt [-i KEY]... [-o OUTPUT] [INPUT]
 
 Options:
     -o, --output OUTPUT         Write the result to the file at path OUTPUT.
@@ -51,11 +51,13 @@ RECIPIENT can be an age public key, as generated by age-keygen, ("age1...")
 or an SSH public key ("ssh-ed25519 AAAA...", "ssh-rsa AAAA...").
 
 Recipient files contain one or more recipients, one per line. Empty lines
-and lines starting with "#" are ignored as comments.
+and lines starting with "#" are ignored as comments. "-" may be used to
+read recipients from standard input.
 
-KEY is a path to a file with age secret keys, one per line
-(ignoring "#" prefixed comments and empty lines), or to an SSH key file.
-Multiple keys can be provided, and any unused ones will be ignored.
+KEY is a path to a file with age secret keys, one per line (ignoring "#"
+prefixed comments and empty lines), or to an SSH key file. Multiple keys
+can be provided, and any unused ones will be ignored. "-" may be used to
+read keys from standard input.
 
 Example:
     $ age-keygen -o key.txt
@@ -144,7 +146,7 @@ func main() {
 		}
 		if len(recipientFlags) == 0 && len(recipientsFileFlags) == 0 && !passFlag {
 			logFatalf("Error: missing recipients.\n" +
-				"Did you forget to specify -r/--recipient or -p/--passphrase?")
+				"Did you forget to specify -r/--recipient, -R/--recipients-file or -p/--passphrase?")
 		}
 		if len(recipientFlags) > 0 && passFlag {
 			logFatalf("Error: -p/--passphrase can't be combined with -r/--recipient.")