Can we have Picocrypt on the Software Manager from Linux Mint?

[Rayser]

A very useful, stable, and simple app to encrypt and decrypt archives and folders. https://github.com/HACKERALERT/Picocrypt

[Moem]

That depends on the folks who manage the Ubuntu repos.

[all41]

ccrypt in the repositories works well for individual files/folders as command line.
To encrypt:
ccrypt -e /path/to file or folder
enter and verify pass-phrase
To decrypt:
ccrypt -d /path/to/file or folder
enter pass-phrase

There are deeper options.

from repository description:

ccrypt is based on the
Rijndael cipher, which is the U.S. government's chosen candidate for the
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES, see http://www.nist.gov/aes). This cipher is
believed to provide very strong security.

[t42]

ccrypt in the repositories works well for individual files/folders as command line.

Of course it works but it is off-top to the original question. It should be noted that ccrypt by default overwrites the encrypted files and if you have system crash during encryption or decryption, you are done.

Picocrypt is a one man show by Canadian student Evan Su, saying on their github page that Picocrypt is the best. It's sort of terra ignota despite it uses known XChaCha20 stream cipher created by Daniel J. Bernstein and published about 2008. XChaCha20 has pure theoretical advantage on AES 256 because it's impossible to find a CPU without AES support these days.

[Rayser]

ccrypt in the repositories works well for individual files/folders as command line.
To encrypt:
ccrypt -e /path/to file or folder
enter and verify pass-phrase
To decrypt:
ccrypt -d /path/to/file or folder
enter pass-phrase

There are deeper options.

from repository description:

ccrypt is based on the
Rijndael cipher, which is the U.S. government's chosen candidate for the
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES, see http://www.nist.gov/aes). This cipher is
believed to provide very strong security.

Picocrypt is a more friendly user app.

[dave0808]

It looks a really interesting project and does seem to fill a niche of having a simple UI front-end to file/directory encryption.

If the code is half as good as the marketing, then it could certainly be worth a look With my developer hat (and crypto hat band) on, certainly (all) the right things are said. Sadly I don't know Go, so I for one will be unable to pull the source and review it properly (not that I've anything to do with it getting into the Mint repos - let's clear that up!)

On the flip side, some of the comparisons are somewhat contrived. Veracrypt for example fulfills a very different purpose. You wouldn't use it for the ad-hoc encryption of a file to send to a friend. I mean, you could, but that's not what it was designed for.