Picocrypt VS covert

Compare Picocrypt vs covert and see what are their differences.

covert

An encryption format offering better security, performance and ease of use than PGP. File a bug if you found anything where we are worse than our competition, and we will fix it. (by covert-encryption)
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Picocrypt covert
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Picocrypt

Posts with mentions or reviews of Picocrypt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-14.

covert

Posts with mentions or reviews of covert. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-15.
  • Picocrypt, Kryptor or Hat?
    4 projects | /r/crypto | 15 Oct 2022
    Which features are you looking for? Just encryption, or also signatures? Do you want to encrypt messages, files or both? All the applications that you mention are more or less experimental, and to that degree I will add https://github.com/covert-encryption/covert which I am one developer of.
  • Real-World Cryptography by David Wong (2021) Book Review
    1 project | /r/crypto | 9 Jan 2022
    Yes, hiding ephemeral keys and signatures is something that Covert Encryption that I am working on implements. But using Elligator 2 by itself is not enough and it turns out that very few people in the world know how to do it right (I gather that Loup Vaillant did his own research a couple of years back, although he did consult Reddit for it, and as far as I can tell, no-one else had published an implementation prior to his MonoCypher).
  • Text encryption software for encrypting notes
    2 projects | /r/crypto | 22 Dec 2021
    Industry standard, no. And most encryption software don't offer the ability to edit files directly. There certainly are websites that can do this in your browser completely locally, if you trust the Javascript they send you, and the implementations which are usually by someone just learning cryptography.
  • AEAD output format
    1 project | /r/cryptography | 16 Dec 2021
    To avoid revealing anything in plain text (presumably you would put authentication headers and perhaps the message length in AD), see how we handle it in Covert Encryption: https://github.com/covert-encryption/covert/blob/main/docs/Specification.md
  • Covert Encryption
    1 project | /r/crypto | 7 Dec 2021
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Nov 2021
  • [Hiring] Experienced in Python toolchains and Qt/pyside?
    1 project | /r/PythonJobs | 3 Dec 2021
    For information on the project itself, see https://github.com/covert-encryption/covert
  • Why did they do it this way?
    2 projects | /r/crypto | 24 Nov 2021
    On #2 there is a format and toolset that I am working on with similar goals, for message and file encryption. You can use either shared passphrases or 25519 public keys to protect your data. It is and will always be completely free in both meanings of the word. https://github.com/covert-encryption/covert
  • Sunday Daily Thread: What's everyone working on this week?
    2 projects | /r/Python | 14 Nov 2021
    Just pushed out another release of https://github.com/covert-encryption/covert/ which is a tool that encrypts files and messages faster and better than anything else, and produces much shorter output than PGP, suitable to be used on message boards because it can fit even in a Twitter message. 100 % Python code of course.
  • Modern signing and encryption
    1 project | /r/crypto | 13 Nov 2021
    PGP pretty much sucks in file encryption too. It uses bad default settings and runs very slowly. Age is far better and I am working on one that should be even faster and more secure, using modern cryptography only. https://github.com/covert-encryption/covert

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Picocrypt and covert you can also consider the following projects:

age - A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.

Kryptor - A simple, modern, and secure encryption and signing tool that aims to be a better version of age and Minisign.

Cryptomator - Multi-platform transparent client-side encryption of your files in the cloud

eddyizm - Creating a new personal site, blog using django and python.

pycryptodome - A self-contained cryptographic library for Python

featherduster - An automated, modular cryptanalysis tool; i.e., a Weapon of Math Destruction

HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

edgetk - 🔒 EC Integrated Security Suite written in Go

infectious - Reed-Solomon forward error correcting library

cryptolocker - Encrypt or decrypt files in place with Speck128/256