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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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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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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xxHash
Extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm
xxHash is an extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm, working at RAM speed limit. It is proposed in four flavors (XXH32, XXH64, XXH3_64bits and XXH3_128bits). The latest variant, XXH3, offers improved performance across the board, especially on small data. It successfully completes the SMHasher test suite which evaluates collision, dispersion and randomness qualities of hash functions. Code is highly portable, and hashes are identical across all platforms (little / big endian). Performance on large data is only one part of the picture. Hashing is also very useful in constructions like hash tables and bloom filters. In these use cases, it's frequent to hash a lot of small data (starting at a few bytes). Algorithm's performance can be very different for such scenarios, since parts of the algorithm, such as initialization or finalization, become fixed cost. The impact of branch misprediction also becomes much more present. -
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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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FHEVM
Integrate FHE with blockchain applications
FHEVM is a framework built by Zama to enable confidential smart contracts on EVM-compatible blockchains using Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). It lets developers write Solidity contracts that handle encrypted inputs, encrypted state, arithmetic and logical operations on encrypted types, while maintaining privacy (data always encrypted), composability (encrypted state works alongside public state), and security (via threshold decryption, KMS, etc). The framework includes on-chain and off-chain components (contracts, coprocessors, gateway, utilities) to orchestrate the whole encrypted data pipeline. -
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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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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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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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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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aws-encryption-sdk-cli
CLI wrapper around aws-encryption-sdk-python
This command line tool can be used to encrypt and decrypt files and directories using the AWS Encryption SDK. If you have not already installed cryptography, you might need to install additional prerequisites as detailed in the cryptography installation guide for your operating system. Installation using a python virtual environment is recommended to avoid conflicts between system packages and user-installed packages. For the most part, the behavior of aws-encryption-cli in handling files is based on that of GNU CLIs such as cp. A qualifier to this is that when encrypting a file, if a directory is provided as the destination, rather than creating the source filename in the destination directory, a suffix is appended to the destination filename. By default the suffix is .encrypted when encrypting and .decrypted when decrypting, but a custom suffix can be provided by the caller if desired. -
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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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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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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 :) -
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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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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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FTC
Symmetric File and Text Encryption
FTC cascades choice of Aria-256, AES-256, Camellia-256, SM4, or ChaCha20 for file and text encryption, the keystream generation is extremely robust I don't make cute interfaces, it just works. -
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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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Largest Generic Hash and HMAC Program
57 Hash Functions In One Program, plus each with HMAC or KMAC
FEHASHMAC is the largest collection of publicly known hash algorithms integrated into a command-line utility. FEHASHMAC contains a set of known test vectors and results for each algorithm such that the correct implementation for each hardware platform and compiler version can directly be verified. Currently 57 hash algorithms like sha1 sha224 sha256 sha384 sha512 and variants, sha3 and shake, all SHA3 finalists and blake3, md2 md4 md5 md6, rmd128 rmd160 rmd256 rmd320, whirl gost lash160 lash256 lash384 lash512 tiger2 and RFC 2104 HMAC and KMAC support are included, plus SHA3 extensions kmac128, kmac256, kmacxof128, kmacxof256 for message. -
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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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QPass is easy to use, open source password manager application with built-in password generator. You can store in it's database such data as passwords and logins which will be encrypted using AES-256 with PBKDF2(number of iterations set by user). Each entry can include additional information about entry such as name, url adress and description.
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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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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/
