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From: Evan Su <48808396+HACKERALERT@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 11:36:44 -0500
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# Picocrypt
-Picocrypt is a very tiny (hence "Pico"), very simple, yet very secure file encryption tool. It uses the modern XChaCha20-Poly1305 cipher suite as well as Argon2ID, making it about as secure and modern of an encryption tool as you'll ever get your hands on. Picocrypt's focus is security, so it might be slightly slower and less attractive visually than others.
+Picocrypt is a very tiny (hence "Pico"), very simple, yet very secure file encryption tool. It uses the modern XChaCha20-Poly1305 cipher suite as well as Argon2ID, making it about as secure and modern of an encryption tool as you'll ever get your hands on. Picocrypt's focus is security, so it might be slightly slower and less attractive visually than others.
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# Instructions
-Picocrypt is about as simple as it gets. Just select a file, enter a password, and start. There are some additional options that you can use for more control:
+Picocrypt is about as simple as it gets. Just select a file, enter a password, and start. If you want to encrypt multiple files, add them to an archive or zip file. There are some additional options that you can use for more control:
- File metadata (editable for encryption, readonly for decryption): Use this to store notes, information, and text along with the file (it won't be encrypted). For example, you can put a description of the file before sending it to someone. When the person you sent it to selects the file in Picocrypt, your description will be shown to that person.
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- Max file size is 256GB, due to ChaCha20 itself. You can split files into chunks for files larger than 256GB.
- - Argon2ID may take a while, but realize that this is all for security. Security and speed were never friends.
- - Encryption/decryption is a little slower than other tools, which average speeds ~50MB/s on a medium-class CPU. Same as above, security and reliability comes at a little decrease in speed.
+ - Argon2 may take a while to derive, but realize that this is all for security. Security and speed were never friends.
+ - Encryption/decryption is a little slower than other tools. Picocrypt average speeds ~50MB/s on a medium-class CPU, because a digest is constantly being updated with every chunk. Same as above, security and reliability comes at a little decrease in speed.
- The portable .exe can be detected as a virus, because it uses 7-Zip's self-extracting archive format to bundle Python along with Picocrypt. I've done my best and submitted it as a false positive to a couple antivirus companies to deal with this.