Picocrypt is a free and open source secure encryption tool for Linux, Windows and MacOS. Using this application you can encrypt your files easily. It uses the XChaCha20 cipher and the Argon2id key derivation function to provide a high level of security to your files. It comes with build-in password generator, keyfiles support, paranoid mode, comments section, Reed-Solomon support, split output files into chunks, compress files and many more.
Download Picocrypt [Windows, Linux, MacOS]
Install Picocrypt on Ubuntu
Download Picocrypt in the .deb package file from the above download link and save it on your Downloads folder. Open the terminal application (ctrl+alt+t) and run below Picocrypt apt install command.
sudo apt install ./Downloads/Picocrypt.deb
You can open it using below command or via the Show Apps Ubuntu application menu.
picocrypt-gui
Install Picocrypt via Flatpak:
You can also install Picocrypt via below flatpak install command.
flatpak install flathub io.github.picocrypt.Picocrypt
And open it using below command.
flatpak run io.github.picocrypt.Picocrypt
Note: If you don’t have then install flatpak and flathub on your system first and restart your system.
