Kryptor VS user.js

Bit new to this, but would it be possible to have Peazip as a frontend that supports Xchacha20? I believe it could interface with something like Kryptor here: https://www.kryptor.co.uk/

i am currently packaging https://github.com/samuel-lucas6/Kryptor. i already tried building it from source, but i got an error and nobody was able to help me. so i am now resorting to just packaging the supplied blob.

And I have yet to write my own file encryption tool… At least others are doing it for me.

{ lib, fetchFromGitHub, fetchzip, stdenvNoCC, dotnetCorePackages, buildDotnetPackage}: let repo = fetchzip { url = "https://github.com/samuel-lucas6/Kryptor/archive/refs/tags/v4.0.1.zip"; sha256 = "sha256-SK4TZg/T6SFimF83iwv3dqTkxDuhk7D7GSWg+oybrDg="; }; in buildDotnetPackage rec { pname = "kryptor"; version = "4.0.1"; src = "${repo}/src"; }

I think depends what be needed, but the main thing is full system encryption. I don't need encrypt single & multiple files, if they are stored on encrypted drive. If I must move them, I can use USB drive encrypted by VeraCrypt. If be needed, I can encrypt all files using Age or Kryptor. Usually Kryptor is recommended more often than Age as I saw, because it's "easier" but I think if something is older could be better, because was more time to detecting errors. 12k vs 1k starts on GitHub is really huge differences in favor of the Age.

I want to ask about algorithms used in that tools: Picocrypt, Kryptor and Hat. I think which one tools should I chose and when. With my knowledge, theoretically the best option are Picocrypt and Hat, depends on situation.

I tested a few encryption open-source software programs: Picocrypt, hat.sh and Kryptor. I combine it all together, and my TXT file looks now that: hello.pcv.enc.pcv.kryptor.

This article is a pretty garbage.

> There is no need to use Git source code management if you don't need it. Git's a complicated tool, which is why Linus Torvalds gave it the name: it's British English for a hostile or uncooperative person. 7-Zip has a single author, Igor Pavlov, and if he doesn't want to use Git, The Reg FOSS desk doesn't blame him.

Who cares if a media desk doesn't know how to use Git. How is that even relevant to the story.

Nobody has said that he should use git, but it is a good idea to use some kind of version control so that changes to the code can be easily tracked, based on change. Places like Github, Gitlab provide plenty of documents.

Using version control also encourages others to contribute. 7-Zip in itself is very old C++ code that I doubt anyone has really looked at too closely in a long time.

Further it often gets recommended as an "encryption tool" when there are better modern alternatives such as Picocrypt https://github.com/HACKERALERT/Picocrypt or Kryptor https://www.kryptor.co.uk.

They later mention that bullshit node-ipc pulled, yet they don't see how version control provides accountability.

Amusing.

You might want to look at Kryptor for something minimal that is actually usable in a reasonable way.

Re: firefox and privacy, if you want to use firefox for privacy, consider using https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js . There is a case to be made that Firefox (with arkenfox's user.js) is one of the best privacy-respecting but still fairly usable browsers.

For extensions, I recommend people follow the recommendations[1] in the arkenfox repo and either harden their firefox or use librewolf. Umatrix is unmaintained since 2019.

[1] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions

For macOS : Thunderbird and you can harden it even more with this : https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js

only arkenfox

This article is shit. https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/ is what you want.

If you make time to dig through settings and change them away from their official use (99% of users don't), then you should use a customized setup (in this case, a user.js). That way, you're good to go no matter what Firefox fork you use.

> Firefox remains a stable option to come back to everytime

Don't get me wrong, I've been using Firefox for the last decade and I don't intend on using anything else for the foreseeable future, but Mozilla has no idea what they're doing with Firefox nowadays. Firefox View is the most useless thing I've ever seen, that expiring "independent voices" theme picker was some weird hippie stunt[1], the latest UI redesign which split the tab from the window looks hideous, and it's not like Firefox doesn't have things you can tweak for a more private experience[2]. I miss Firefox Test Pilot where they tried out different new features, I found a lot of them to be very useful but sadly lots of them didn't make it.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/in...

[2] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/

Like others have said you can customize the browser to the point that it doesn't even look like the default anymore. Or customize it to maximize privacy.