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Dev tools · October 10, 2023

Encryption Toolbox for Linux, Windows and macOS – AxCrypt Compatible

I am the original author of file encryption app AxCrypt. Since then I founded and left a company commercializing it. Now I have published a back-to-basics fully compatible version, with a free GPL command line, an optional proprietary cross platform GUI built on top of the command line, as well as a SDK for .NET developers.

Encryption Toolbox for Linux, Windows and macOS – AxCrypt Compatible launched on October 10, 2023 with 11 votes, #1,449 of 4,393 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

In plain words

This is an encryption tool for Linux, Windows, and macOS created by the original AxCrypt author. It offers a free open-source command-line utility under GPL, an optional proprietary graphical interface that works across platforms, and a .NET SDK for developers. The tool maintains full compatibility with AxCrypt's file encryption format while providing a simplified, back-to-basics approach to file encryption.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

Xecrets Cli - A feature-rich AxCrypt-compatible file encryption cli toolbox using https://github.com/axantum/xecrets-net, forked from AxCrypt 2.x for cryptography. https://www.axantum.com/xecrets-ez is an easy to use graphical frontend for Windows, Linux and macOS using it, and https://www.nuget.org/packages/Xecrets.Sdk/ is a .NET SDK . - xecrets/xecrets-cli

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