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Open-source, burn-after-reading encrypted vault.

  1. 1ZS

    I'm excited to introduce Zerobox, a cross-platform, single binary process sandboxing CLI written in Rust. It uses the sandboxing crates from the OpenAI Codex repo and adds additional functionalities like secret injection, SDK, etc. Watch the demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZiPm9BOPCg Zerobox follows the same sandboxing policy as Deno which is deny by default. The only operation that the command can run is reading files, all writes and network I/O are blocked by default. No VMs, no Docker, no remote servers. Want to block reads to /etc? zerobox…

    Mar 2026 · github.com

  2. 2
    ZeroDB119

    An open-source, end-to-end encrypted database protocol

    2015

  3. 3SB

    Stasher is a tiny CLI tool that lets you share encrypted secrets that burn after reading — no accounts, no logins, no servers to trust. I built it because I just wanted to share a password. Not spin up infra. Not register for some "secure" web app. Not trust Slack threads. Just send a secret. Secrets are encrypted client-side with AES-256-GCM. You get a `uuid:key` token to share. Once someone reads it, it's gone. If they don't read it in 10 minutes, it expires and deleted. Everything is verifiable. Every release is signed, SLSA-attested, SBOM-included, and logged in the Rekor transparency…

    2025 · github.com

  4. 4
    hat.sh212

    Free, fast, secure and serverless file encryption

    2019

  5. 5E2

    Hey HN, I'm so happy to finally show you all this release after years of hard work. I posted the first version of EnvKey to HN back in 2017 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15330757), then went through YC in W18 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16569534). EnvKey is an end-to-end encrypted configuration and secrets manager. It protects your organization's API keys, encryption keys, credentials, and other secrets, and makes it easy to run servers, scripts, tests, and everything else with the latest config. It also helps you avoid duplication in your…

    2022 · v2.envkey.com

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    Zero-knowledge vault - secure files, share on your terms

    2025

  7. 7KE

    Keeper is an embeddable secret store (Argon2id, XChaCha20-Poly1305 by default). Four security levels, audit chains, crash-safe rotation. Vault is overkill for most use cases. This is for when you ge paranoid about env and need encrypted local storage that doesn't suck. No security through obscurity, hence, It's still early, so now's the best time to find weird edge cases, race conditions, memory leaks, crypto misuse, anything that breaks. The README has a full security model breakdown if you want to get adversarial.

    Apr 2026 · github.com

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    Zero-cloud AES-256 vault for API keys, seeds & secrets.

    May 2026 · cypherkeep.com

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    Share secure, self-destructing text and code snippets.

    Jun 2026 · zerogpaste.com

  10. 10

    Zero-trust, offline-first encryption for your files

    Jun 2026 · vaulticrypt.pages.dev

  11. 11WA

    just wanted to share ward, a tool i hacked together to encrypt and manage sensitive files in a vault folder. it's written in bash and meant to be cloned and then stored using git or version control. you don't have to store it that way, it's just why i created it. what ward does: encrypts the files in ./vault/ into a single .gpg file, checks to see if your files have been tampered with, generates totp codes if you need them to recover critical accounts. how to use it: clone the repo, toss your files into the vault directory, and run yarn encrypt. now commit your new [private]…

    2024 · github.com

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    Zero-cloud, locally encrypted offline password vault

    Jun 2026 · notaccess.vercel.app

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    Securely store your secrets in GitHub Private Repo

    Feb 2026

  14. 14

    Zero-knowledge, encrypted alternative to Evernote & Notion

    Mar 2026

  15. 15PO

    Hello HN! We are developers and security researchers making tools for developers to encrypt data at an application level while maintaining sole control of their keys. We believe that data should always be encrypted unless it is part of an active computation. Encryption is relatively easy, but key management is challenging. There are plenty of encryption tools and SDKs that are out there (Hashicorp Vault, AWS KMS etc.) but we are focusing on ease and speed of implementation, developer experience and self custody of keys. A few months ago, we quit our jobs and started full time on Phase. So…

    2023 · github.com

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    Passwordless vault with biometric login + zero-knowledge

    Mar 2026

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    Zero-knowledge vault for API keys, encrypt, proxy, secrets

    Jun 2026 · ranbval.com

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    Encrypted self-destructing vaults. Like Snapchat for secrets

    May 2026 · vaultburn.xyz

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    File encryption secured by a USB key, not a password

    Aug 2026 · github.com

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    Secure Messaging, Files & Secrets for Teams

    Jun 2026 · zerolink.ge

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    Offline encrypted vault for Apple Silicon Mac.

    Jun 2026 · farewell.pro

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    A zero-knowledge password manager that only you can unlock

    Jun 2026 · novasafe.io

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    Zero-knowledge secret manager for small dev teams

    May 2026 · getvaultlite.com

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    Encrypt files locally. Zero data uploaded to the server.

    Aug 2026 · hellsecure.online

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