bcrypt
bcrypt is a blowfish file encryption utility which aims for cross-platform portability. In addition to providing 448-bit encryption, bcrypt overwrites input files with random garbage before deletion in order to make low-level data recovery much more difficult.
| Tags | Security Cryptography |
|---|---|
| Licenses | BSD Original |
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 13 Sep 2002 06:10
Changes: This release adds support for a large number of new operating systems including 64-bit systems which were previously unsupported, and a native Win32 port. Additionally, encryption and decryption speed for large files is dramatically increased and memory usage is more efficient. There were also a couple of minor bugfixes for bugs that slipped out in 1.0.
- 07 Sep 2002 23:18
Changes: Bcrypt now supports zlib compression, binary compatibility of encrypted files generated on both big- and little-endian systems, and secure deletion of files by overwriting them with random data before unlinking.
