Alternatives to Keybase
Crypto identity and chat, bought by Zoom
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Crypto identity and chat, bought by Zoom. Keybase has been discontinued; the active alternatives listed here are maintained products you can switch to.
People and teams who want encrypted messaging and file sharing without trusting a provider with plaintext access, and anyone who wants to cryptographically tie their identity to accounts on other platforms.
End-to-end encrypted chat, including exploding messages that auto-delete. Teams with shared, encrypted file storage (KBFS) for photos, videos, and documents. A public directory that links your Keybase key to proofs on services like Twitter/X, GitHub, and Reddit, so others can verify who you are. Now owned by Zoom, with continued client and Tor-accessible access.
Each user holds a public/private key pair; messages and files are encrypted client-side so Keybase's servers only ever see ciphertext. Identity proofs (signed posts on other platforms) are published and checked automatically to bind a Keybase key to real-world accounts, and teams extend the same key-based encryption to group chat and shared file directories.
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AES Crypt is a free, open-source utility (since 2005) for encrypting individual files with the AES-256 cipher, available as both a GUI (right-click integration) and a command-line tool on Windows, mac.
AxCrypt is a file and folder encryption app that lets users right-click to encrypt individual files with AES-128/256, rather than mounting a container or volume.
BestCrypt Container Encryption, from Finnish vendor Jetico, creates mountable encrypted containers on Windows, macOS, Linux and Android, similar in concept to VeraCrypt.
DiskCryptor is an open-source Windows encryption tool that can encrypt entire disks, partitions, external drives and file-based containers using AES, Twofish and Serpent.
NordLocker, from the makers of NordVPN, creates password-protected encrypted folders (lockers) on the user's device using AES-256 and Argon2, with drag-and-drop file/folder encryption and optional end.
Tomb (the Crypto Undertaker), maintained by the Dyne.org Foundation since 2007, is a lightweight shell-script CLI that wraps Linux's cryptsetup/LUKS to create, open and manage encrypted volume files (.
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