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Category: Security

Encryption

cryptsetup – disk encryption

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Cryptsetup offers a command-line interface to set up cryptographic volumes. This is achieved using the Linux kernel device mapper target dm-crypt.

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Encryption

gocryptfs – encrypted overlay filesystem written in Go

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

gocryptfs provides file-based encrypted storage through FUSE, with reverse mode, filename encryption, FIDO2 support and cloud-friendly sync.

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Encryption

loop-AES – file system and swap encryption package

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Security

loop-AES is a fast and transparent file system and swap encryption package. loop-AES can be used to encrypt disk partitions, removable media, and more.

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Encryption

dm-crypt – kernel device-mapper crypto target

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Security

dm-crypt is a transparent disk encryption subsystem in the kernel that provides a generic way to create virtual layers of block devices.

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Technology

WavSteg – uses least significant bit steganography to hide a file in wavs

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Security

WavSteg uses least significant bit steganography to hide a file in the samples of a .wav file. It’s written in Python.

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Technology

StegoShare – steganography tool

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Security

StegoShare is a simple steganography tool. You can hide 2GB file in multiple images. Tool is written in Java.

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Technology

Steghide – steganography software

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Security

Steghide is a steganography program that is able to hide data in various kinds of image- and audio-files.

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Technology

Steganoroute – send steganographed text messages

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Security

Steganoroute is a tool to send steganographed text messages to another computer over the network. It’s written in Python.

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Technology

Stegano – command line tool for steganography

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Stegano is a command line tool for steganography, focused on performance and simplicity. It’s written in Rust.

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Technology

stegify – fully transparent hide a file within an image or set of images

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

stegify is a simple command line tool capable of fully transparent hiding any file within an image or set of images.

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Technology

OpenStego – steganography tool

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Security

OpenStego is a simple steganography tool. It supports password-based encryption of data for additional layer of security.

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Network Security

PyHash Checker – check the cryptographic checksum of a file

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Security

PyHash Checker is a utility app to check the cryptographic checksum of a file. It’s written in the Python programming language.

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Network Security

QuickHash – enables hashing of files, text, folders, and physical disks

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Security

QuickHash is a graphical interface data hashing tool. It enables the rapid selection and hashing of data such as text, and more.

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Network Security

GtkHash – desktop utility for computing message digests or checksums

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Security

GtkHash is a desktop utility for computing message digests or checksums. An easy to use, graphical alternative to md5sum.

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Security

Zenmap – official Nmap Security Scanner GUI

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms Security

Zenmap is an Nmap frontend. It is meant to be useful for advanced users and to make Nmap easy to use by beginners.

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Security

Angry IP Scanner – fast network scanner

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms Security

Angry IP Scanner (or simply ipscan) is an open-source and cross-platform network scanner designed to be fast and simple to use.

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Security

GNOME Nettool – graphical network diagnostic utilities

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Security

GNOME Nettool provides graphical access to ping, traceroute, port scanning, DNS lookups, interface statistics and other network utilities.

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Network Security

Nmap – Nmap Security Scanner

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Nmap is a utility for network discovery, administration and security auditing. Nmap also offers flexible target and port specification.

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Network Security

Netcat – networking utility

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Netcat is a networking utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using the TCP/IP protocol.

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Encryption software

GnuPG – implementation of the OpenPGP standard

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Security

GnuPG implements OpenPGP for encryption, signing and key management, with smartcard support, modern authenticated encryption and automation

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