Tomb - A File Encryption and Personal Backup Tool for Linux | Linux Today

Tomb – A File Encryption and Personal Backup Tool for Linux

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Aaron Kili
Sep 30, 2018

Tecmint: Tomb is a free open source, small, powerful and simple tool for encrypting files on GNU/Linux. At the time of this writing, it comprises of a shell script (zsh) using generic filesystem GNU tools and the Linux kernel crypto API (cryptsetup and LUKS).

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Aaron Kili

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