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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Rymdport
Cross-platform application for easy encrypted file
Rymdport is a free, open-source file sharing application designed for securely transferring content between devices. Formerly known as wormhole-gui, it uses the Magic Wormhole protocol to exchange files, folders, and text. All transfers use end-to-end encryption to protect shared information during transmission. The software supports communication with other compatible Magic Wormhole clients. Its graphical interface simplifies sending and receiving content without configuring traditional file sharing services. Built with Go and the Fyne toolkit, it compiles into a native application without additional runtime dependencies. Available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and FreeBSD, Rymdport offers a lightweight alternative for encrypted transfers between computers. -
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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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Stegcore
A cross-platform crypto-steganography toolkit
Stegcore combines cryptography and steganography to hide encrypted data inside ordinary files. It encrypts your payload before embedding it, so the hidden content is unreadable even if someone extracts it, and invisible to anyone who doesn't know it's there. Unlike basic steganography tools that hide data without encrypting it, Stegcore ensures the payload is cryptographically protected at rest. Unlike pure encryption tools, the payload isn't even visible. Designed for journalists, security researchers, red teamers, digital forensics professionals, and CTF participants. -
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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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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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Ncrypt is intended to give you security in an insecure environment. If you are wanting to encrypt files, wishing to hide your activites from prying eyes, and want to "cover your tracks", Ncrypt is for you.
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Secret File
File Encryption/Decryption using password
Secret File is a free and easy to use encryption/decryption app that can encrypt nearly any kind of file format using passwords. Files can be stored as personal or sent over the internet as confidential as the data of files are securely encrypted at the binary level itself and can be decrypted at any time and anywhere. You can also use multi-level protection for more secureness. -
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An encryption/decryption engine which can encrypt any file(text, pdf , doc, rtf , gpg , mp3 , mp4 etc..) or any data on your PC such that only you with the valid password can decrypt it.Also it will compress the file while encrypting it.
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StrongKey CryptoEngine
FIDO strong authentication, encryption, digital signature engine
StrongKey CryptoEngine (SKCE) 2.0 is a "crypto Swiss Army knife" server to perform cryptographic functions through web services, while freeing application developers to focus on business functionality. Its modules include: - A FIDO Engine to support FIDO U2F key registrations/authentications - An encryption engine to encrypt/decrypt files using AES/TDES keys - Escrowing keys to on-premises key management system (StrongAuth KeyAppliance/SAKA) - Integration to cloud storage services (AWS S3, Azure and Eucalyptus Walrus) - A signing engine to digitally sign documents, code, etc. with FIPS 140-2 HSM support - An LDAP Engine for AD/LDAP integration for authorization decisions SKCE is battle-tested and in production at one of the largest e-commerce companies in the world, protecting more than 50M documents within the business process; see http://bit.ly/14VPYlO for the case study. Download StrongKey CryptoCabinet (SKCC) on this site to see how to use SKCE. -
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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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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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Mnemonic-Recovery-CUDA
Written in C/CUDA, this tool recovers lost mnemonics and passphrases f
Written in C/CUDA, this tool recovers lost mnemonics and passphrases for BTC, ETH, TRX, DOGE, LTC, DASH, ZEC, BCH, and BTG. Supports BIP32/44/49/84 derivation paths. Features partial phrase recovery and a built-in dictionary for fast, efficient results. Compliant with wallet standards. -
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SHA256-in-C
SHA-256 Algorithm Implementation in C
