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6 Best Free and Open Source Linux File Encryption Tools

This roundup looks at the finest GUI-based file encryption tools. Only free and open source software is included.

The Terrapin Vulnerability Scanner can be used to determine the vulnerability of an SSH client or server against the Terrapin Attack.

File Lock PEA (PEA = Password Encrypting Archive) encrypts data at the filesystem level

Octoscan is a static vulnerability scanner for GitHub action workflows.

Encpipe is billed as the simplest encryption tool in the world.

The Greenbone Vulnerability Manager is the central management service between security scanners and the user clients.

PGPTool is a Java-based desktop GUI application for easy and regular PGP decryption/encryption.

grype is a vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems.

Kryptor lets you encrypt multiple files/directories with a passphrase, symmetric key, or asymmetric keys.

Kleopatra is the KDE tool for managing X.509 and OpenPGP certificates in the GpgSM and GPG keyboxes and for retrieving certificates.

Picocrypt is billed as a very small (hence Pico), very simple, yet very secure encryption tool that you can use to protect your files.

The USBGuard software framework helps to protect your computer against rogue USB devices (a.k.a. BadUSB).

Linux has a good range of port scanners that help administrators identify and rectify weaknesses in a system.

turbo-scanner is a port scanner and service detection tool that uses 1000 goroutines at once to scan any hosts IP or FQDN.

havn is a lightweight self-contained port scanning application using asynchronous Tokio multithreading to deliver fast and reliable results.