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bitcoin/bitcoin

Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree

Stack

C++ Qt Cargo CMake pip

GitHub topics

#bitcoin #c-plus-plus #cryptocurrency #cryptography #p2p

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-08-30
History: 20 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 768 open

90,411

stars

Forks: 39,428
Commits: 51,054 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +78 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +53 +0.1%

Website GitHub

openssl/openssl

General purpose TLS and crypto library

Stack

GitHub topics

#cryptography #decryption #encryption #openssl #ssl #tls

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1998-12-21
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1,547 open

30,928

stars

Forks: 11,525
Commits: 41,402 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

bee-san/Ciphey

⚡ Automatically decrypt encryptions without knowing the key or cipher, decode encodings, and crack hashes ⚡

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#artificial-intelligence #cipher #cpp #cryptography #ctf #ctf-tools

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-07-18
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 63 open

21,667

stars

Forks: 1,445
Commits: 3,114 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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cryptomator/cryptomator

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

Stack

Java Maven

GitHub topics

#cloud-storage #crypto #cryptography #cryptomator #encryption #java

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2014-02-02
History: 14 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 285 open

16,172

stars

Forks: 1,543
Commits: 6,518 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jedisct1/libsodium

A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library.

Stack

C .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c #crypto #cryptography #zig-package

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-01-20
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1 open

13,985

stars

Forks: 1,885
Commits: 4,705 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

halfrost/Halfrost-Field

✍🏻 Source Code Deep Dives, System Design & Engineering Blogs | Halfrost-Field 冰霜之地：源码解析、系统设计与工程实践笔记

Stack

Go CocoaPods

GitHub topics

#algorithms #blog #cryptography #go #golang #http2

Updated: 2026-08-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-04-02
History: 1 history point
License: CC-BY-SA-4.0
Issues: 0 open

13,229

stars

Forks: 1,875
Commits: 1,067 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

PrivateBin/PrivateBin

A minimalist, open source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data. Data is encrypted/decrypted in the browser using 256 bits AES.

AI dev

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer npm

GitHub topics

#crypto #cryptography #encrypted #hacktoberfest #one-time #paste

Updated: 2026-09-18
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2010-05-26
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 217 open

8,605

stars

Forks: 1,034
Commits: 4,987 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

pyca/cryptography

cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers.

AI dev

Stack

Python pytest Cargo Go modules uv

GitHub topics

#cryptography #python

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-07
History: 46 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 34 open

7,762

stars

Forks: 1,821
Commits: 15,845 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

smallstep/cli

🧰 A zero trust swiss army knife for working with X509, OAuth, JWT, OATH OTP, etc.

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#certificate #cryptography #encryption #jose #jwe #jws

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2018-07-17
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 204 open

4,348

stars

Forks: 323
Commits: 4,107 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +7 +0.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

KuroLabs/stegcloak

Hide secrets with invisible characters in plain text securely using passwords 🧙🏻‍♂️⭐

Stack

JavaScript Express npm

GitHub topics

#cipher #compression #cryptography #data-exfiltration #functional-programming #hacking

Updated: 2024-10-01
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2020-04-28
History: 12 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 15 open

3,904

stars

Forks: 251
Commits: 162 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

padloc/padloc

A modern, open source password manager for individuals and teams.

Stack

JavaScript Electron Tauri Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#cryptography #end-to-end-encryption #javascript #lit-element #lit-html #password-generator

Updated: 2025-03-29
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2013-11-10
History: 13 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 105 open

2,927

stars

Forks: 266
Commits: 3,417 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

TokTok/c-toxcore

The future of online communications.

Stack

C CMake Go modules vcpkg

GitHub topics

#cryptography #encryption #network #p2p #security #toxcore

Updated: 2026-10-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-06-24
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 219 open

2,693

stars

Forks: 310
Commits: 5,719 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Peergos/Peergos

A p2p, secure file storage, social network and application protocol

Stack

Java

GitHub topics

#cryptography #decentralized #documents #encrypted #encryption #end-to-end-encryption

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-23
History: 8 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 92 open

2,535

stars

Forks: 203
Commits: 7,684 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

github/SoftU2F

Software U2F authenticator for macOS

Archived

Stack

Swift

GitHub topics

#cryptography #fido-u2f #macos

Updated: 2020-12-14
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2017-01-24
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

2,249

stars

Forks: 130
Commits: 196 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +1 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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cossacklabs/themis

Easy to use cryptographic framework for data protection: secure messaging with forward secrecy and secure data storage. Has unified APIs across 14 platforms.

Stack

C Android Express React React Native Bundler Cargo CMake

GitHub topics

#asymmetric-cryptography #authentication #cryptography #cryptography-library #encryption #golang

Updated: 2026-04-24
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2014-09-13
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 31 open

1,978

stars

Forks: 159
Commits: 1,832 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

ashutosh1206/Crypton

Library consisting of explanation and implementation of all the existing attacks on various Encryption Systems, Digital Signatures, Key Exchange, Authentication methods along with example challenges from CTFs

Archived

Stack

Python

GitHub topics

#cryptanalysis #crypto #cryptography #ctf #ctf-challenges #ctf-solutions

Updated: 2021-06-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-11-30
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

1,627

stars

Forks: 271
Commits: 150 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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cossacklabs/acra

Database security suite. Database proxy with field-level encryption, search through encrypted data, SQL injections prevention, intrusion detection, honeypots. Supports client-side and proxy-side ("transparent") encryption. SQL, NoSQL.

Stack

Go Android Gin gRPC Go Bundler CMake CocoaPods

GitHub topics

#crypto #cryptography #database-proxy #databases #django #encryption

Updated: 2026-04-23
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2016-11-21
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 29 open

1,493

stars

Forks: 140
Commits: 1,059 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

hellman/xortool

A tool to analyze multi-byte xor cipher

Stack

Python Poetry

GitHub topics

#cryptanalysis #cryptography #xor-cipher #xortool

Updated: 2025-05-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-01-18
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 3 open

1,489

stars

Forks: 181
Commits: 127 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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strongbox-password-safe/Strongbox

A KeePass/Password Safe Client for iOS and OS X

Stack

Objective-C Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#cocoa #cryptography #ios #objective-c #osx #password

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-07-16
History: 9 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 230 open

1,466

stars

Forks: 126
Commits: 435 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

superpoweredSDK/Low-Latency-Android-iOS-Linux-Windows-tvOS-macOS-Interactive-Audio-Platform

🇸Superpowered Audio, Networking and Cryptographics SDKs. High performance and cross platform on Android, iOS, macOS, tvOS, Linux, Windows and modern web browsers.

Stack

C++ Android Flutter React React Native Bundler CMake CocoaPods

GitHub topics

#aes #android #audio #cpp #cryptography #fft

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-05-12
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 2 open

1,444

stars

Forks: 288
Commits: 136 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

pyca/pynacl

Python binding to the Networking and Cryptography (NaCl) library

Stack

C pytest .NET SDK PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#cryptography #libsodium #nacl #python

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-02-22
History: 10 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 64 open

1,209

stars

Forks: 271
Commits: 847 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bnb-chain/tss-lib

Threshold Signature Scheme, for ECDSA and EDDSA

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#blockchain #cryptography #golang #tss

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2019-05-16
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 66 open

1,049

stars

Forks: 371
Commits: 508 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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skiff-org/skiff-apps

Privacy-first, end-to-end encrypted Mail, Pages, Drive, and Calendar.

Stack

TypeScript Express React Yarn

GitHub topics

#calendar #collaboration #component-library #cryptography #email #end-to-end-encryption

Updated: 2024-12-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2022-11-18
History: 10 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

1,005

stars

Forks: 391
Commits: 152 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

RubyCrypto/rbnacl

Ruby FFI binding to the Networking and Cryptography (NaCl) library (a.k.a. libsodium)

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#chacha20 #cryptography #ed25519 #libsodium #nacl #ruby

Updated: 2025-10-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-12-01
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

985

stars

Forks: 95
Commits: 660 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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PQClean/PQClean

Clean, portable, tested implementations of post-quantum cryptography

Archived

Stack

C pytest pip

GitHub topics

#c #cryptography #implementations #post-quantum #post-quantum-cryptography #pqc

Updated: 2026-08-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-01-11
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 42 open

957

stars

Forks: 193
Commits: 1,408 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

fwdai/rowel

🔑 Local-first Secrets Manager

Stack

Rust Axum React Tailwind CSS Tauri Bun Cargo CocoaPods

GitHub topics

#cipher #credentials #cryptography #desktop #desktop-app #encryption

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2019-06-30
History: 14 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 15 open

952

stars

Forks: 81
Commits: 1,572 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +1 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +229 +17.1%

Website GitHub

swiftyapp/swifty

🔑 Free Offline-first Password Manager

Stack

JavaScript Electron React npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#cipher #credentials #cryptography #desktop #desktop-app #electron

Updated: 2026-01-23
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-06-30
History: 10 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 95 open

944

stars

Forks: 79
Commits: 818 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

TheMaxMur/RS-Key

Turn a $5 Raspberry Pi RP2350 board into an open-source hardware passkey: WebAuthn/FIDO2 logins, ssh & git signing, OpenPGP, PIV, TOTP. Rust firmware, no_std.

AI dev

Stack

Rust pytest Cargo PEP 517 uv

GitHub topics

#authenticator #ccid #cryptography #embedded-rust #fido #fido-u2f

Updated: 2026-10-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-06-11
History: 1 history point
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 19 open

592

stars

Forks: 63
Commits: 1,706 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

emmansun/gmsm

ShangMi (SM) cipher suites for Go (Go语言商用密码软件)

AI dev

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#aes-ni #cfca #cryptography #golang #ml-dsa #ml-kem

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2020-12-03
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

562

stars

Forks: 97
Commits: 3,368 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +1 +0.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +17 +0.5%

Website GitHub

alichtman/deadbolt

Dead-simple file encryption for any OS

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Electron React npm

GitHub topics

#aes-256 #cryptography #encryption #encryption-decryption #encryption-tool #linux

Updated: 2026-09-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-08-04
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 30 open

428

stars

Forks: 15
Commits: 444 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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