AES Crypt Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to AES Crypt for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is TrueCrypt, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to AES Crypt and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to AES Crypt are GnuPG, LUKS, Kleopatra and File Lock PEA.

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  1. GoAnywhere OpenPGP Studio™ is a free desktop tool that makes it easy to protect sensitive files using the popular OpenPGP encryption standard. Documents can be encrypted, decrypted, signed and verified from your PC or workstation using this...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • OpenPGP
     
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    LUKSUS is a tool that creates an encrypted volume and filesystem on a hardrive or other storage media as well as a filecontainer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • TrueCrypt
     
  3. Lockystar icon
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    Lockystar is a file encryption application. It allows you to encrypt individual files wherever they are located—on your cloud drive or on your hard drive.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Ubuntu
     
  4. DCrypt icon
     8 likes

    DCrypt is an encryption and decryption tool that combines in a smart way multiple algorithms. The combination of multiple strong algorithms makes it much more difficult for hackers to get the plain content of the encrypted file without the password.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. The Gnome Encfs Manager is an easy to use manager and mounter for encfs stashes. It allows you to create encrypted directories, any file that is placed in such a directory will be encrypted.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
     
  6. CrococryptFile is a file encryption tool which creates encrypted archives of arbitrary files and folders.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  7. Xecrets Ez is an easy to use personal desktop application available for Windows, Mac and Linux. It is 100% compatible with AxCrypt, but is less complex without the bells and whistles.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. EncFS icon
     25 likes

    EncFS provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space. It runs without any special permissions and uses the FUSE library and Linux kernel module to provide the filesystem interface. You can find links to source and binary releases below.

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  9. GoFileEncoder icon
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    GoFileEncoder is a little file encoder that uses the XOR encryption. It is coded in Golang, and is compiled for several OSs (Windows®, Linux®, and soon macOS®).

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. OneTime icon
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    OneTime is an open source encryption program that uses the one-time pad algorithm to allow two parties to communicate privately. It has features to assist with the bureaucracy of pad management, and comes with built-in help. OneTime requires Python 2.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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