File Encryption Software
If you are currently not using encryption software for your hard disk, emails, or file archives, you should pick one here.
{%
include cardv2.html
title="VeraCrypt - Disk Encryption"
image="/assets/img/tools/VeraCrypt.png"
description="VeraCrypt is a source-available freeware utility used for on-the-fly encryption. It can create a virtual encrypted disk within a file or encrypt a partition or the entire storage device with pre-boot authentication. VeraCrypt is a fork of the discontinued TrueCrypt project. It was initially released on June 22, 2013. According to its developers, security improvements have been implemented and issues raised by the initial TrueCrypt code audit have been addressed."
website="https://veracrypt.fr/"
forum="https://forum.privacytools.io/t/discussion-veracrypt-file-encryption/1532"
git="https://www.veracrypt.fr/code/"
windows="https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Downloads.html"
linux="https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Downloads.html"
mac="https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Downloads.html"
%}
{%
include cardv2.html
title="GNU Privacy Guard - Email Encryption"
image="/assets/img/tools/GnuPG.png"
description="GnuPG is a GPL-licensed alternative to the PGP suite of cryptographic software. GnuPG is compliant with RFC 4880, which is the current IETF standards track specification of OpenPGP. Current versions of PGP (and Veridis' Filecrypt) are interoperable with GnuPG and other OpenPGP-compliant systems. GnuPG is a part of the Free Software Foundation's GNU software project, and has received major funding from the German government."
website="https://gnupg.org/"
forum="https://forum.privacytools.io/t/discussion-gnupg-file-encryption/1533"
git="https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git"
windows="https://gpg4win.org/download.html"
linux="https://gnupg.org/download/index.html#binary"
freebsd="https://www.freshports.org/security/gnupg/"
openbsd="http://openports.se/security/gnupg"
netbsd="http://pkgsrc.se/security/gnupg"
mac="https://gpgtools.org/"
fdroid="https://f-droid.org/app/org.sufficientlysecure.keychain"
googleplay="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.sufficientlysecure.keychain"
%}
{%
include cardv2.html
title="PeaZip - File Archive Encryption"
image="/assets/img/tools/PeaZip.png"
description="PeaZip is a free and open-source file manager and file archiver made by Giorgio Tani. It supports its native PEA archive format (featuring compression, multi volume split and flexible authenticated encryption and integrity check schemes) and other mainstream formats, with special focus on handling open formats. It also supports 180+ archive formats."
website="http://www.peazip.org"
forum="https://forum.privacytools.io/t/discussion-peazip-file-encryption/1534"
source="https://osdn.net/projects/peazip"
windows="https://www.peazip.org/peazip-64bit.html"
linux="https://www.peazip.org/peazip-linux.html"
freebsd="https://www.freshports.org/archivers/peazip/"
openbsd="https://www.peazip.org/peazip-bsd.html"
netbsd="https://www.peazip.org/peazip-bsd.html"
%}
Worth Mentioning
- Cryptomator - Free client-side AES encryption for your cloud files. Open source software: No backdoors, no registration.
- Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) - A full disk encryption system for Linux using dm-crypt as the disk encryption backend. Included by default in Ubuntu. Available for Windows and Linux.
- Hat.sh - A cross-platform, serverless JavaScript web application that provides secure file encryption using the AES-256-GCM algorithm in your browser. It can also be downloaded and run offline.
- Keka - A macOS-only, open-source file archiver with the ability to encrypt files.