Top Encryption repositories

Repositories with the GitHub topic “encryption”: 28 repositories with 502k stars between them, mostly written in Python, Shell and Go. The highest-rated is rclone/rclone, #456 on the bestofgithub Elo ladder.

Biggest movers this week

kopia/kopia

Open on GitHubGo

Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included.

  • 1,739+8 Elo, change today
  • 14.7k stars
  • 804 forks
  • 57 watchers
brew install kopia
  • backup
  • cloud
  • deduplication
  • encryption

peazip/PeaZip

Open on GitHubPascal

Free Zip / Unzip software and Rar file extractor. Cross-platform file and archive manager. Features volume spanning, compression, authenticated encryption. Supports 7Z, 7-Zip sfx, ACE, ARJ, Brotli, BZ2, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, GZ, ISO, JAR, LHA/LZH, NSIS, OOo, PAQ/LPAQ, PEA, QUAD, RAR, RPM, split, TAR, Z, ZIP, ZIPX, Zstandard.

  • 1,553+3 Elo, change today
  • 8.1k stars
  • 430 forks
git
git clone https://github.com/peazip/PeaZip.git
  • archiver
  • brotli
  • compression
  • encryption

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research

Open on GitHubPython

~95% on SimpleQA (e.g. Qwen3.6-27B on a 3090). Supports all local and cloud LLMs (llama.cpp, Ollama, Google, ...). 10+ search engines - arXiv, PubMed, your private documents. Everything Local & Encrypted.

  • 1,636+2 Elo, change today
  • 9.5k stars
  • 925 forks
git
git clone https://github.com/LearningCircuit/local-deep-research.git
  • academia
  • anthropic
  • arxiv
  • brave

beemdevelopment/Aegis

Open on GitHubJava

A free, secure and open source app for Android to manage your 2-step verification tokens.

  • 1,662+5 Elo, change today
  • 13.5k stars
  • 620 forks
git
git clone https://github.com/beemdevelopment/Aegis.git
  • 2fa
  • android
  • authenticator
  • encryption

veracrypt/VeraCrypt

Open on GitHubC

Disk encryption with strong security based on TrueCrypt

  • 1,690+12 Elo, change today
  • 12.1k stars
  • 1.3k forks
  • 238 watchers
brew
brew install --cask veracrypt
  • encryption
  • encryption-algorithms
  • encryption-decryption
  • idrix

cryptomator/cryptomator

Open on GitHubJava

Cryptomator for Windows, macOS, and Linux: Secure client-side encryption for your cloud storage, ensuring privacy and control over your data.

  • 1,704+4 Elo, change today
  • 16.5k stars
  • 1.5k forks
  • 188 watchers
brew
brew install --cask cryptomator
  • cloud-storage
  • crypto
  • cryptography
  • cryptomator

Top 28 on the Elo ladder

  1. #456
    rclone/rclone

    "rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud…

    1,991 Elo −1961kGo
  2. #723
    openssl/openssl

    General purpose TLS and crypto library

    1,912 Elo −3631.4kC
  3. #800
    ente/ente

    💚 End-to-end encrypted cloud for everything.

    1,895 Elo +2030.1kDart
  4. #1,050
    gchq/CyberChef

    The Cyber Swiss Army Knife - a web app for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis

    1,848 Elo −2336.4kJavaScript
  5. #1,182
    hwdsl2/setup-ipsec-vpn

    Set up your own IPsec VPN server in just a few minutes, with IPsec/L2TP, Cisco IPsec and IKEv2. Supports Ubuntu…

    1,829 Elo −1829kShell
  6. #1,184
    spacedriveapp/spacedrive

    Spacedrive is an open source cross-platform file explorer, powered by a virtual distributed filesystem written in Rust.

    1,829 Elo −3239.5kRust
  7. #1,896
    kopia/kopia

    Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end…

    1,739 Elo +7214.7kGo
  8. #2,215
    cryptomator/cryptomator

    Cryptomator for Windows, macOS, and Linux: Secure client-side encryption for your cloud storage, ensuring privacy and…

    1,704 Elo +2416.5kJava
  9. #2,355
    veracrypt/VeraCrypt

    Disk encryption with strong security based on TrueCrypt

    1,690 Elo +4512.1kC
  10. #2,483
    simplex-chat/simplex-chat

    SimpleX - the first messaging network operating without user identifiers of any kind - 100% private by design! iOS…

    1,677 Elo +2419.6kHaskell
  11. #2,664
    beemdevelopment/Aegis

    A free, secure and open source app for Android to manage your 2-step verification tokens.

    1,662 Elo +5813.5kJava
  12. #3,005
    LearningCircuit/local-deep-research

    ~95% on SimpleQA (e.g. Qwen3.6-27B on a 3090). Supports all local and cloud LLMs (llama.cpp, Ollama, Google, ...). 10+…

    1,636 Elo +629.5kPython
  13. #3,112
    trailofbits/algo

    Set up a personal VPN in the cloud

    1,629 Elo +430.4kPython
  14. #3,873
    angristan/openvpn-install

    Set up your own OpenVPN server on Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, Arch Linux and more

    1,581 Elo −1916.1kShell
  15. #4,118
    duplicati/duplicati

    Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud!

    1,567 Elo −1015.2kC#
  16. #4,365
    peazip/PeaZip

    Free Zip / Unzip software and Rar file extractor. Cross-platform file and archive manager. Features volume spanning…

    1,553 Elo +708.1kPascal
  17. #4,591
    borgbackup/borg

    Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.

    1,540 Elo +613.9kPython
  18. #5,077
    tutao/tutanota

    Tuta is an email service with a strong focus on security and privacy that lets you encrypt emails, contacts and…

    1,515 Elo +28.1kTypeScript
  19. #5,140
    txthinking/brook

    A cross-platform programmable network tool

    1,513 Elo −3815.1kGo
  20. #6,013
    amark/gun

    An open source cybersecurity protocol for syncing decentralized graph data.

    1,473 Elo −2819.1kJavaScript
  21. #7,332
    alexanderepstein/Bash-Snippets

    A collection of small bash scripts for heavy terminal users

    1,420 Elo −219.9kShell
  22. #7,437
    berty/berty

    Berty is a secure peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access, cellular data or trust in the…

    1,416 Elo +89.3kTypeScript
  23. #7,999
    hwdsl2/docker-ipsec-vpn-server

    Docker image to run an IPsec VPN server, with IPsec/L2TP, Cisco IPsec and IKEv2. Auto-generates server config and…

    1,395 Elo −167.1kShell
  24. #8,460
    sobolevn/awesome-cryptography

    A curated list of cryptography resources and links.

    1,377 Elo +97.2k
  25. #8,523
    robinmoisson/staticrypt

    Password protect a static HTML page, decrypted in-browser in JS with no dependency. No server logic needed.

    1,374 Elo +28kHTML
  26. #9,116
    sigalor/whatsapp-web-reveng

    Reverse engineering WhatsApp Web.

    1,344 Elo −86.5kJavaScript
  27. #9,868
    timvisee/ffsend

    :mailbox_with_mail: Easily and securely share files from the command line. A fully featured Firefox Send client.

    1,256 Elo −17.4kRust
  28. #9,883
    yadm-dev/yadm

    Yet Another Dotfiles Manager

    1,249 Elo −46.4kPython