installation

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires

macOS

Homebrewvérifié · 100%

brew install bcrypt

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsvérifié · 94%

sudo port install bcrypt

MacPorts ports tree · security/bcrypt/Portfile · Source: api.github.com

Linux

Fedora dnfvérifié · 92%

sudo dnf install bcrypt

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · bcrypt · Source: dl.fedoraproject.org

aperçu

Résumé du paquet

Cross platform file encryption utility using blowfish

Liens du projet

Commandes et alias

bcrypt

historique

Historique du projet et usages

bcrypt is a small cross-platform command-line file encryption utility built around the Blowfish block cipher, not the later password-hashing scheme that shares the same name. Its public SourceForge page and bundled README describe a Unix-style tool that encrypts files to .bfe files, optionally compresses input, and securely overwrites originals before removal.

Historique du projet

Johnny Shelley published bcrypt 1.1 in 2002 under a BSD-style license. The project page ties the tool directly to Bruce Schneier's 1993 Blowfish algorithm and Paul Kocher's public Blowfish implementation, with local changes shipped in the bcrypt source archive.

The 1.1 release notes emphasize portability work: bcrypt had been tested across FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, Cygwin, Win32, Solaris, Mac OS X 10.1 Server, HP-UX, Alpha, MIPS, PPC, SPARC, and other systems. The same notes warn users upgrading from 1.0 on some unsupported architectures to decrypt and re-encrypt files because early portability bugs could affect compatibility.

Historique d'adoption

bcrypt's adoption pattern is typical of early-2000s security utilities: a small upstream tarball, a SourceForge homepage, and packaging by Unix-like distributions for users who wanted a simple local file encryptor. The Homebrew, Fedora, and MacPorts package names preserve that utility even though modern searches for 'bcrypt' usually find password hashing libraries instead.

Modes d'utilisation

The documented interface is deliberately small: run bcrypt on one or more files, producing .bfe encrypted files; run it again on .bfe input to decrypt. Options control stdout output, compression, removal of input files, and the number of overwrite passes before deletion.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

For package historians, bcrypt is interesting because it is a name collision frozen in package indexes: this package is a Blowfish file-encryption CLI, while 'bcrypt' is now better known as a password hashing algorithm. It also captures a period when secure deletion, endian portability, source tarballs, GPG signatures, and cross-architecture binary compatibility were front-and-center concerns for small security packages.

Chronologie

1993: Bruce Schneier publishes the Blowfish algorithm, which bcrypt later uses.
2002: bcrypt 1.1 is released by Johnny Shelley with bug fixes, broader operating-system support, better speed, and lower memory use.
2000s-2020s: Unix package managers continue carrying bcrypt as a niche file-encryption utility.

Related projects

Blowfish is the cipher family named by the bcrypt documentation as the cryptographic basis for the tool.
zlib is the compression dependency documented for the source build.
Modern bcrypt password-hashing libraries are related mainly by name and Blowfish lineage; they are not the same package or interface.

Sources

https://bcrypt.sourceforge.net/
https://bcrypt.sourceforge.net/bcrypt-1.1.tar.gz
source_facts.package-manager

posture de sécurité

Niveau de risque : blue

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

Classificateur de risque

risque blue · confiance moyen · tool

Pourquoi

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

Signaux

text:encrypt

Comportement d'installation

Aucun hook post-install Homebrew n’est enregistré dans les métadonnées de formule.
Les métadonnées de bottle Homebrew sont disponibles pour 6 plateformes.

Revue recommandée

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exécutables

Exécutables installés

Commande	Type	Exposition	Note
`bcrypt`	cli	exécutable global

fraîcheur

Version et fraîcheur

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page générée2026-07-08

version du gestionnaire1.1

gestionnaire mis à jour

données localesOK

amontnot checked

dernière version détectéenon détecté

https://bcrypt.sourceforge.net/

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métadonnées d'installation

Métadonnées du paquet

Clé du paquet	brew:bcrypt
Version	1.1
Gestionnaire de paquets	Homebrew
Page du gestionnaire de paquets	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/bcrypt
Page d'accueil	https://bcrypt.sourceforge.net/
Docs amont	https://bcrypt.sourceforge.net/
Licence	BSD-3-Clause
Archive source	https://bcrypt.sourceforge.net/bcrypt-1.1.tar.gz
Bouteille	disponible (sur arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
post-install Homebrew	non défini
Service	aucun déclaré

faits du registre

Détails de la base source

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	bcrypt
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	stable

correspondances dans les bases sources

Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

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dnf95%

bcrypt 1.1-40.fc44

File encryption utility

http://bcrypt.sourceforge.net/

sudo dnf install bcrypt

License: Zlib
Category: Unspecified
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: bcrypt
3 Dépendances
1 fournit
normalized package name match
Correspondance par : Bcrypt

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: bcrypt from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst

MacPorts95%

bcrypt

sudo port install bcrypt

normalized package name match
Correspondance par : Bcrypt

MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: security/bcrypt/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

graphe de paquets

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piste source

Généré depuis les données du dépôt

Cette page est servie par av-web depuis l'artéfact SQLite privé des paquets généré par scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/bcrypt.yml

Sources utilisées

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
av.db category and tag curation
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated package history
external package-manager database matches
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment

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