Encryption ​

Notes ​

• XChaCha20-Poly1305 encyption seems nice.

Links ​

• How Quantum Computers Break Encryption | Shor's Algorithm Explained (2019)
• CyberChef - Web app for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis.
• Fixing Whisper with Waku (2019)
• Age - Simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability. (HN) (HN) (Spec) (HN)
• rage - Rust implementation of the age tool.
• End-to-End Encryption in the Browser (2020) (HN)
• Microsoft SEAL - Easy-to-use and powerful homomorphic encryption library. (Web)
• E2E Encryption for Zoom Meetings (2020) (Bizarre Design Choices in Zoom’s End-to-End Encryption (2020)) (HN)
• So You Want to Build an End-to-End Encrypted Web App (2020) (HN)
• Cingulata - Compiler toolchain and RTE for running C++ programs over encrypted data by means of fully homomorphic encryption techniques.
• baby's first hash encryption (2020)
• Ciphey - Automated decryption tool. Input encrypted text, get the decrypted text back.
• Ask HN: Good Resources on Voice Encryption? (2020)
• Intro to Fully Homomorphic Encryption (2020) (HN)
• Exploring Fully Homomorphic Encryption (2020)
• IBM Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit for Linux (HN)
• horcrux - Split your file into encrypted fragments so that you don't need to remember a passcode. (Lobsters)
• This is how Signal protocol encrypts group messages
• Tiny AES in C - Small and portable implementation of the AES ECB, CTR and CBC encryption algorithms written in C.
• Charm - Includes a simple, powerful encryption interface.
• EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption (2020) (HN) (Lobsters)
• A Furry’s Guide to End-to-End Encryption (2020) (Lobsters)
• Keeping encryption elitist (2020)
• Tomb - Open source system for easy encryption and backup of personal files.
• TinyMCE’s real-time collaboration solution is end-to-end encrypted (2021)
• libsignal-client - Implementation of the Signal client protocol in Rust.
• How the Signal Protocol Works
• Real-World Cryptography Book
• Hybrid Public Key Encryption
• What on Earth is this Encryption Scheme? (2021)
• rage-wasm - WebAssembly wrapper of the rage encryption library.
• SchnorrGate - Testing Schnorr's factoring Claim in Sage.
• On the Feasibility of Secure Traceability in End-to-End Encrypted Messaging (2021)
• Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) - Libraries and tools to perform fully homomorphic encryption operations on an encrypted data set. (HN)
• kiss-crypto - Easily encrypt and decrypt messages. All the complexity is hidden behind the scenes.
• Awesome Homomorphic Encryption
• Concrete - Set of crates that implements Zama's variant of TFHE. In a nutshell, fully homomorphic encryption (FHE).
• Zama - End-to-end encryption for AI. (GitHub)
• PQ Crypto Catalog - Reference implementations of post-quantum cryptographic primitives.
• Up1 - Host that client-side encrypts images, text, and other data, and stores them, with the server knowing nothing about the contents.
• OCIcrypt Library - OCI image spec implementation of container image encryption.
• ocicrypt-rs - Rust version of the containers/ocicrypt library.
• F1: A Fast and Programmable Accelerator for Fully Homomorphic Encryption (Extended Version) (2021) (Tweet) (Tweet)
• noble-secp256k1 - Fastest JS implementation of secp256k1. Independently audited, high-security, 0-dependency ECDSA & Schnorr signatures.
• Double-Odd Elliptic Curves (HN)
• Mask Network - Send encrypted posts to your friends, participate in cryptocurrencies lucky-draws, and share encrypted files on the platforms you are already using. (Code)
• libsecp256k1 - Optimized C library for ECDSA signatures and secret/public key operations on curve secp256k1. (Python Lib)
• Tanker - End-to-end encryption as a service. (GitHub)
• Electronic Health Certificates Spec - Proposal for encoding and signing the Electronic Health Certificate (HCERT).
• Authenticated Cipher MORUS (2016) - Fast authenticated cipher for platforms without hardware AES acceleration. (Zig Code)
• goRecrypt - Proxy Re-Encryption go implementation.
• WebPush - Encryption Utilities for Web Push protocol.
• Elliptic Curves - Computerphile (2018)
• An Introduction to the Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves (2021)
• Secret - Simplest command to encrypt/decrypt a file, useful for committing encrypted ".env" files to version control, among other things.
• Trousseau - Encrypted key-value store designed to be a simple, safe and trustworthy place for your data.
• EME for Go - EME (Encrypt-Mix-Encrypt) wide-block encryption for Go.
• Evervault - Encryption for developers. (GitHub)
• Alchemy - Language and Compiler for Homomorphic Encryption Made easY.
• Hashing is not encryption (2022) (HN)
• zooko-msg - Send encrypted and decrypted messages with verifiable keys and human readable names.
• A stick figure guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) (2009) (HN)
• rPGP - Pure rust implementation of OpenPGP.
• Breaking 256-bit Elliptic Curve Encryption with a Quantum Computer (2022) (Paper)
• How Bitwarden encrypts your data (2022) (Lobsters)
• TL;DR - Hybrid Public Key Encryption (2022) (HN)
• A Deep dive into Ed25519 Signatures (2022) (Lobsters)
• Yopass - Secure sharing of secrets, passwords and files. (Code)
• The Noise Protocol Framework - Framework for crypto protocols based on Diffie-Hellman key agreement.
• TFHE - Fast Fully Homomorphic Encryption Library over the Torus.
• blst - BLS12-381 signature library focused on performance and security. It is written in C and assembly.
• blst Verification - Specifications and correctness proofs for the blst BLS12-381 signature library.
• Crypter - Innovative, convenient and secure encryption app.
• OPAQUE - Asymmetric password-authenticated key exchange protocol.
• akd - Implementation of an auditable key directory (also known as a verifiable registry).
• Ask HN: CLI Tool for File Encryption? (2022)
• wage - WASM package and web app for encrypting and decrypting age-encrypted files, powered by rage. (Web)
• Hands-on: X25519 Key Exchange
• TenSEAL - Library for doing homomorphic encryption operations on tensors.
• MEGA: Malleable Encryption Goes Awry (HN)
• tlock - Timelock Encryption/Decryption Made Practical.
• SecureStore for Rust - Simple, encrypted, git-friendly, file-backed secrets manager for rust.
• Should notes be end-to-end encrypted? (2022) (HN)
• tlock-js - Timelock Encryption made practical. A Typescript library for encrypting for the future.
• Timevault - Deadman's switch to encrypt your vulnerability reports or other compromising data to be decryptable at a set time in the future.
• Post-Quantum Cryptography: Digital Signature Schemes
• The Rise of Fully Homomorphic Encryption (2022) (HN)
• age and Authenticated Encryption (2022) (Lobsters)
• Dexios - Secure file encryption utility, written in Rust.
• Image Steganography Tool - Encrypt and hide files inside images. (HN)
• yage - age with YAML support.
• Multi-ciphertext security degradation for lattices (2022)
• Reed-Solomon Error Correcting Codes from the Bottom Up (2022)
• Spiral’s Homomorphic Encryption – Is This the Future of Privacy? (2022) (HN)
• Sunscreen - Compiler for the BFV fully homomorphic encryption scheme.
• Crypto helper - Web app that can hash, encrypt, and sign the data on the client side. (Code)
• Password Generator for HashiCorp Vault
• Portable Secret - How I store my secrets and communicate privately. (Web) (HN)
• Fully-homomorphic encryption, zero-knowledge proofs, and multiparty computation (2022)
• Hyperbacked - Stores secrets securely using printable PDFs that contain encrypted QR-Codes.
• Three Lessons from Threema: Analysis of a Secure Messenger
• Enc - CLI tool for encryption, a modern and friendly alternative to GnuPG.
• TFHE-rs - Fastest open source Homomorphic Encryption library in Rust.
• Blyss SDK - SDK for private data access, built on homomorphic encryption.
• StatiCrypt - Password protect a static HTML page. (HN)
• Awesome age - Collection of projects and resources in the age file encryption ecosystem.
• MED - Rust powered command-line data masking, encryption, and decryption tool.
• Standard curve database - List of standardised elliptic curves, collected from many standards. (Code)
• kiss-crypto - Easily encrypt and decrypt messages. All the complexity is hidden behind the scenes.
• Store age identities inside the TPM: age-plugin-tpm (2023) (Lobsters)
• Shamir Secret Sharing (2023) (HN) (Tweet)
• age.ts - TypeScript implementation of the age file encryption format, based on libsodium.
• noble-ciphers - Auditable & minimal JS implementation of Salsa20, ChaCha, Poly1305 & AES-SIV.
• Tiny Encryptor - Tiny opinionated isomorphic library for encrypting and decrypting with ease.
• Homomorphic Encryption with Images (2022)
• Authenticated encryption: why you need it and how it works (2023) (Lobsters)
• ed25519-unsafe-libs - List of unsafe ed25519 signature libs.