aef

Command line tool for encrypting files

Features

• Use AES-256-GCM for complete data encryption
• Use scrypt to prevent brute force cracking
• Use brotli compression file ^Optional
• Support the encryption directory and file
• Cross-platform usage Linux macOS Windows
• Cross-platform relative path

⚠️ Warning

• aef has not undergone any security check
• Disruptive changes may occur prior to 1.0

Install

Download the binary from the release page

Or use cargo to install

bash cargo install aef

Usage

Encryption

bash aef -i ./files/ -o ./dist.aef

Decryption

bash aef -i ./dist.aef -o ./files/ -d

Password

By default you will enter your password in the terminal, if you don't want to enter it manually you can use the -p option

bash aef -i ./files/ -o ./dist.aef -p 123456

Compress

aef support the use of brotli to compress files, you can use the -c option to specify the compression level

• Fastest: -c 0
• Best: -c 11

bash aef -i ./files -o ./dist.aef -c 0

Pipe

If input/output is not specified, aef will read/write from stdin/stdout