Open Source Linux Encryption Software
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View 27 business solutionsBrowse free open source Encryption software and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Encryption software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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VeraCrypt
Open source disk encryption with strong security for the Paranoid
VeraCrypt is a free disk encryption software brought to you by IDRIX (https://www.idrix.fr) and based on TrueCrypt 7.1a. It adds enhanced security to the algorithms used for system and partitions encryption making it immune to new developments in brute-force attacks. It also solves many vulnerabilities and security issues found in TrueCrypt. This enhanced security adds some delay ONLY to the opening of encrypted partitions without any performance impact to the application use phase. This is acceptable to the legitimate owner but it makes it much harder for an attacker to gain access to the encrypted data. All released files are PGP signed with key ID=0x680D16DE, available on key servers and downloadable at https://www.idrix.fr/VeraCrypt/VeraCrypt_PGP_public_key.asc VeraCrypt can mount TrueCrypt volumes. It also can convert them to VeraCrypt format. Documentation: https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Documentation.html FAQ : https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/FAQ.html -
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Gpg4win
GnuPG for Windows
Gpg4win is the official Windows distribution of the GnuPG encryption ecosystem, providing an accessible graphical environment for secure email and file protection. It packages the GnuPG engine together with user-friendly tools such as certificate management utilities, Windows Explorer integration, and Outlook plugins, enabling encryption workflows without requiring command-line expertise. The suite supports both OpenPGP and S/MIME standards, allowing organizations and individuals to secure communications using widely recognized cryptographic methods. Users can easily encrypt, decrypt, sign, and verify files or entire folders directly from the Windows interface, making the software suitable for everyday business use. Gpg4win emphasizes strong cryptographic defaults and compatibility with smart cards and enterprise certificate infrastructures. -
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HackBrowserData
Decrypt passwords/cookies/history/bookmarks from the browser
HackBrowserData is an open-source tool that could help you decrypt data ( password|bookmark|cookie|history|credit card|download|localStorage|extension ) from the browser. It supports the most popular browsers on the market and runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. This tool is limited to security research only, and the user assumes all legal and related responsibilities arising from its use! The author assumes no legal responsibility! Installation of HackBrowserData is dead-simple, just download the release for your system and run the binary. -
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SOPS
Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets
sops is an editor of encrypted files that supports YAML, JSON, ENV, INI and BINARY formats and encrypts with AWS KMS, GCP KMS, Azure Key Vault, age, and PGP. For the adventurous, unstable features are available in the develop branch, which you can install from source. To use sops as a library, take a look at the decrypt package. We rewrote Sops in Go to solve a number of deployment issues, but the Python branch still exists under python-sops. We will keep maintaining it for a while, and you can still pip install sops, but we strongly recommend you use the Go version instead. If you're using AWS KMS, create one or multiple master keys in the IAM console and export them, comma separated, in the SOPS_KMS_ARN env variable. It is recommended to use at least two master keys in different regions. If you want to use PGP, export the fingerprints of the public keys, comma separated, in the SOPS_PGP_FP env variable. -
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age
A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library)
age is a security-oriented tool and library by Filo Sottile. age is a simple, modern, secure encryption utility (and Go library) that emphasizes minimal configuration and strong defaults. It provides small explicit keys, no complex options, and is designed for UNIX-style composability; you can pipe into it, integrate it into scripts, etc. It supports a clearly defined format and promotes interoperability across implementations (there are Rust, TypeScript, etc). The project is well-suited for personal data encryption, backup use-cases, scripting encryption workflows, and embedding encryption in tools. Because of its design philosophy, it avoids the bloat of many older encryption utilities while maintaining strong cryptographic hygiene. It’s especially useful for developers or system administrators who want to adopt encryption without learning a multitude of options. -
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Ciphey
Decrypt encryptions without knowing the key or cipher
Fully automated decryption/decoding/cracking tool using natural language processing & artificial intelligence, along with some common sense. You don't know, you just know it's possibly encrypted. Ciphey will figure it out for you. Ciphey can solve most things in 3 seconds or less. Ciphey aims to be a tool to automate a lot of decryptions & decodings such as multiple base encodings, classical ciphers, hashes or more advanced cryptography. If you don't know much about cryptography, or you want to quickly check the ciphertext before working on it yourself, Ciphey is for you. The technical part. Ciphey uses a custom-built artificial intelligence module (AuSearch) with a Cipher Detection Interface to approximate what something is encrypted with. And then a custom-built, customizable natural language processing Language Checker Interface, which can detect when the given text becomes plaintext. -
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GnuPG
Complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard
GnuPG (GNU Privacy Guard) is a widely used free software encryption system that implements the OpenPGP standard to provide secure communication and data protection across multiple platforms. It uses a hybrid cryptographic approach combining symmetric encryption for performance with public-key cryptography for secure key exchange and identity verification. The software allows users to encrypt files and messages, create digital signatures, and manage cryptographic keys, making it a foundational tool for privacy-focused workflows. Because it is open source and licensed under the GNU GPL, GnuPG can be freely audited, modified, and redistributed, which has contributed to its adoption in security-sensitive environments. It is primarily command-line driven but can be integrated into email clients, messaging tools, and graphical front-ends for broader usability. -
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Keybase client
Keybase Go library, client, service, OS X, iOS, Android, Electron
Keybase is secure messaging and file-sharing. We use public key cryptography to ensure your messages stay private. Even we can’t read your chats. Keybase works for families, roommates, clubs, and groups of friends, too. Keybase connects to public identities, too. You can connect with communities from Twitter, Reddit, and elsewhere. Don’t live dangerously when it comes to documents. Keybase can store your group’s photos, videos, and documents with end-to-end encryption. You can set a timer on your most sensitive messages. This distribution includes cryptographic software. The country in which you currently reside may have restrictions on the import, possession, use, and/or re-export to another country, of encryption software. BEFORE using any encryption software, please check your country's laws, regulations and policies concerning the import, possession, or use, and re-export of encryption software. -
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Ente
End-to-end encrypted cloud for photos, videos and 2FA secrets
Ente is a fully open-source, end‑to‑end encrypted cloud platform designed for securely storing and managing your photos, videos, and 2FA secrets — without needing to trust the service provider. It includes cross‑platform clients and a CLI for self‑hosting needs. Ente is a service that provides a fully open source, end-to-end encrypted platform for you to store your data in the cloud without needing to trust the service provider. On top of this platform, we have built two apps so far: Ente Photos (an alternative to Apple and Google Photos) and Ente Auth (a 2FA alternative to the deprecated Authy). This monorepo contains all our source code - the client apps (iOS / Android / F-Droid / Web / Linux / macOS / Windows) for both the products (and more planned future ones!), and the server that powers them. -
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GopenPGP V3
A high-level OpenPGP library
GopenPGP V3 is a high-level OpenPGP cryptographic library developed by ProtonMail that provides a user-friendly API for common encryption and signing operations in Go, abstracting the complexity of the underlying OpenPGP standards and golang crypto primitives. This library lets developers perform key generation, message encryption and decryption, digital signing, and signature verification with straightforward functions that hide much of the boilerplate and nuance typically required when working directly with OpenPGP implementations. Built on top of a forked version of the Go crypto library, gopenpgp supports current OpenPGP RFC standards and includes examples for working with password-based encryption and PGP keys, as well as detached and inline signatures. Because it’s designed for broad use, the library also targets go-mobile compatibility, meaning it can support mobile app use cases alongside server and desktop tooling. -
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shadowsocks-libev
Bug-fix-only libev port of shadowsocks
Shadowsocks-libev is a lightweight secured SOCKS5 proxy for embedded devices and low-end boxes. Shadowsocks-libev is written in pure C and depends on libev. It's designed to be a lightweight implementation of shadowsocks protocol, in order to keep the resource usage as low as possible. Snap is the recommended way to install the latest binaries. You can build shadowsocks-libev and all its dependencies by script. The latest shadowsocks-libev has provided a redir mode. You can configure your Linux-based box or router to proxy all TCP traffic transparently, which is handy if you use an OpenWRT-powered router. Although shadowsocks-libev can handle thousands of concurrent connections nicely, we still recommend setting up your server's firewall rules to limit connections from each user. We strongly encourage you to install shadowsocks-libev from jessie-backports-sloppy. -
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transfer.sh
Easy and fast file sharing from the command-line
Easy and fast file sharing from the command-line. This code contains the server with everything you need to create your own instance. Transfer.sh currently supports the s3 (Amazon S3), gdrive (Google Drive), storj (Storj) providers, and local file system (local). For easy deployment, we've created a Docker container. For the usage with a AWS S3 Bucket, you just need to specify the following options, provider, aws-access-key, aws-secret-key, bucket, and s3-region. If you specify the s3-region, you don't need to set the endpoint URL since the correct endpoint will used automatically. To use a custom non-AWS S3 provider, you need to specify the endpoint as defined from your cloud provider. In preparation you need to create an access grant (or copy it from the uplink configuration) and a bucket. To get started, login to your account and go to the Access Grant Menu and start the Wizard on the upper right. -
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cppcrypto
C++ cryptographic library (modern hash functions, ciphers, KDFs)
cppcrypto provides optimized implementations of cryptographic primitives. Hash functions: BLAKE, BLAKE2, Echo, Esch, Groestl, JH, Kupyna, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2, SHA-3, SHAKE, Skein, SM3, Streebog, Whirlpool. Block ciphers: Anubis, Aria, Camellia, CAST-256, Kalyna, Kuznyechik, Mars, Serpent, Simon, SM4, Speck, Threefish, Twofish, and Rijndael (AES) with all block/key sizes. Stream ciphers: HC-128, HC-256, Salsa20, XSalsa20, ChaCha, XChaCha. Encryption modes: CBC, CTR. AEAD modes: Encrypt-then-MAC (EtM), GCM, OCB, ChaCha-Poly1305, Schwaemm. Streaming AEAD. MAC functions: HMAC, Poly1305. Key derivation functions: PBKDF2, scrypt, Argon2, HKDF. Includes sample command-line tools: - 'digest' - for calculating and verifying file checksum(s) using any of the supported hash algorithms (similar to md5sum or RHash). - 'cryptor' - for file encryption using Serpent-256 algorithm in AEAD mode. Check out the cppcrypto web site linked below for programming documentation. -
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VanitySearch
VanitySearch is a Bitcoin address prefix lookup tool.
VanitySearch is a Bitcoin address prefix lookup tool. If you want to generate a secure private key, use the `-s` option to enter your passphrase, which will be used to generate the base key conforming to the BIP38 standard (e.g., `VanitySearch.exe -s "my passphrase" 1MyPrefix"`). You can also use `VanitySearch.exe -ps "my passphrase"`, which adds a cryptographically secure seed to your passphrase.Fixed custom address matching errors and private key conversion errors, changed the randomizer, added puzzles suitable for finite regions, added random and incremental modes, added -e to enable homomorphism, and optimized CPU using AVX2, etc.For additional tools or to provide feedback, please visit: https://gitlab.com/8891689 -
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Microsoft SEAL
Easy-to-use and powerful homomorphic encryption library
Microsoft SEAL is an open-source homomorphic encryption library that allows computations to be performed directly on encrypted data, with no need for any decryption. Developed by the Cryptography and Privacy Research group at Microsoft, it enables software engineers to build end-to-end encrypted data storage and computation services that never have to procure the customer's key. Microsoft SEAL is very easy to use, compile and run in many different environments. Homomorphic encryption is an encryption scheme that allows the cloud to compute directly on the encrypted data, without requiring the data to be decrypted first. This results in encrypted computations remaining encrypted, decrypted only by the data owner using the secret key. -
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transcrypt git
transparently encrypt files within a git repository
A script to configure transparent encryption of sensitive files stored in a Git repository. Files that you choose will be automatically encrypted when you commit them, and automatically decrypted when you check them out. The process will degrade gracefully, so even people without your encryption password can safely commit changes to the repository's non-encrypted files. transcrypt protects your data when it's pushed to remotes that you may not directly control (e.g., GitHub, Dropbox clones, etc.), while still allowing you to work normally on your local working copy. You can conveniently store things like passwords and private keys within your repository and not have to share them with your entire team or complicate your workflow. transcrypt is in the same vein as existing projects like git-crypt and git-encrypt, which follow Git's documentation regarding the use of clean/smudge filters for encryption. -
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mp3stegz is an application that apply steganographic (steganography) algorithm in mp3 files. mp3stegz will maintain original mp3 file's size and sound quality. The hidden message is compressed(zlib) and encrypted(Rijndael).
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CrococryptFile
An encryption tool for creating file archives
CrococryptFile is a file encryption tool which creates encrypted archives of files and folders. The encryption features of CrococryptFile can be compared to a ZIP utility that uses ZIP's AES encryption. However, there are significant differences. CrococryptFile... - encrypts all file and folder information including filenames, time/date and filesize information, - disguises any information of the archive's content, because all data and meta-data is simply integrated into a giant file dump. =Crypto Suites= For a full list of and details about supported crypto suites, please visit the CrococryptFile Homepage. Examples: - Password-based encryption (following PBKDF2) with AES-256, Twofish, Serpent, ... - Public key encryption using GPG/OpenPGP, Windows Keystore/CAPI with RSA/X.509 certificates - Cloaked (headerless) Password-based Encryption (AES-Twofish-256 cascaded) - ... -
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KeyKiller-Cuda
Solving the Satoshi Puzzle
KeyKiller is a GPU-accelerated version of the KeyKiller project, designed to achieve extreme performance in solving Satoshi Nakamoto's puzzles using modern NVIDIA GPUs. KeyKiller CUDA pushes the limits of cryptographic key search performance by leveraging CUDA, thread-beam parallelism, and batch EC operations. The command-line version is open-source and free to use. For the paid advanced graphics version, please visit: https://gitlab.com/8891689/KeyKiller-Cuda/ -
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MicroZip
Create,extract and encrypt ZIP,GZIP,TAR,BZIP2,TAZ files on Java mobile
MicroZip is a powerful file compression and encryption utility for mobile phones which allows you to create and extract compressed archives in multiple formats and encrypt sensitive information with powerful AES-256 encryption. MicroZip can create and extract ZIP,TAR,TGZ,TBZ2 archives and extract many other formats as JAR,GZ,BZ2,TBZ,WAR,BZIP2,GZIP,Z,TAZ,CBZ etc. MicroZip allows you to extract selected files without extracting the whole ZIP archive. MicroZip also supports encrypted ZIP archives with both classic ZIP encryption and AES 256 encryption algorithm. -
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Gryptonite (formerly GPassword Manager)
Simple but Powerful, Cross-Platform Password Management Utility
A simple but powerful cross-platform utility for managing and accessing your most secret data. It stores passwords and whole files, so it can literally store any information you want to keep secret. Access your most-used passwords/URLs right out of a desktop tray icon. For advanced users, it includes a separate utility called Grypto-Transforms, which has a universal hash calculator with all the major hash functions, generic encrypt/decrypt functions and a base64/hex converter. Although the interface is simple and intuitive, the security is top-notch. It uses AES with CCM to secure and authenticate the data. -
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Midbar
Midbar is more than just an open source password vault!
Midbar is more than just a password vault! It's made to significantly increase the cost of unauthorized access to its your personal data. Some tutorials: ESP32 V4.0: https://www.instructables.com/Midbar-V40/ Raspberry Pi Pico V2.0: https://www.instructables.com/Midbar-Raspberry-Pi-Pico-Version-V20/ ESP32 V5.0: https://www.instructables.com/Midbar-V50/ STM32F401CCU6 + Arduino Uno Version V1.0: https://www.instructables.com/Midbar-STM32F401CCU6-Arduino-Uno-Version/ RTL8720DN + Arduino Uno V1.0: https://www.instructables.com/Midbar-RTL8720DN-Arduino-Uno-Version/ ESP8266 V2.0: https://www.instructables.com/Midbar-ESP8266-Version-V20/ STM32F407VET6 + Arduino Uno Version V1.0: https://www.instructables.com/Midbar-STM32F407VET6-Arduino-Uno-Version/ STM32F407VET6 Version V2.0: https://www.instructables.com/Midbar-STM32F407VET6-Version-V20/ ESP32 V6.0: https://www.instructables.com/Midbar-V60/ Teensy 4.1 V3.0: https://www.instructables.com/DIY-Hardware-Data-Vault-With-Teensy-41/ -
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BIP39-XOR
Encrypt or decrypt 12, 15, 18, 21 or 24 BIP39 codewords array ("seed")
Encrypt or decrypt 12, 15, 18, 21 or 24 BIP39 codewords array (so-called "seed phrase") using exclusive OR (XOR)/Vernam cipher (a.k.a. One Time Pad). If not input by a user, an encryption key is automatically generated at random. Encryption with such a key preserves integrity of BIP-39 checksums of all keys (that's distinct while also compatible with SeedXOR implementation). -
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ShredBitz is a free and simple file shredder tool that can wipe selected files from any hard disk drive. ShredBitz is written in the java programming language and uses a custom written algorithm for shredding. ShredBitz is a very powerful tool.
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SafeBox
The Best file security app.
A free and Open-Source File Encryption and Decryption app with GUI (Graphical User Interface) and CLI (Command Line Interface) that help you to protect your privacy well using AES (Advanced Encryption System) with your own password and get a single (portable )encrypted file that can share across internet or unsafe places with peace of mind without any data collection or any extra/hidden processes, It also can keep and encrypt the original file name within the file then while decryption (if you ticked the option) it can recover the original file name. I tried hard to help you in your privacy protection and keep this project running and developing. Good Luck :)
