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Top Cryptography repositories on GitHub

Crypto primitives, protocols, and zero-knowledge tooling.

Ranked by stars across 1,135 repositories tagged cryptography. Refreshed daily.

  1. 1
    bitcoin/bitcoin89,499 · ⑂ 39,012

    Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree

    • bitcoin
    • c-plus-plus
    • p2p
    • cryptocurrency
    • cryptography
  2. 2
    TheAlgorithms/JavaScript34,182 · ⑂ 5,851

    Algorithms and Data Structures implemented in JavaScript for beginners, following best practices.

    • algorithm
    • algorithm-challenges
    • data-structures
    • cryptography
    • cipher
    • search
  3. 3
    anoma/anoma33,771 · ⑂ 4,116

    Reference implementation of Anoma

    • cryptography
    • blockchain
    • protocol
    • consensus
    • distributed-systems
    • p2p
  4. 4
    openssl/openssl30,329 · ⑂ 11,324

    General purpose TLS and crypto library

    • cryptography
    • openssl
    • encryption
    • tls
    • ssl
    • decryption
  5. 5
    bee-san/Ciphey21,455 · ⑂ 1,436

    ⚡ Automatically decrypt encryptions without knowing the key or cipher, decode encodings, and crack hashes ⚡

    • decryption
    • natural-language-processing
    • cryptography
    • cipher
    • artificial-intelligence
    • ctf-tools
  6. 6
    amark/gun19,060 · ⑂ 1,239

    An open source cybersecurity protocol for syncing decentralized graph data.

    • machine-learning
    • artificial-intelligence
    • big-data
    • blockchain
    • p2p
    • decentralized
  7. 7

    A powerful obfuscator for JavaScript and Node.js

    • javascript-obfuscator
    • obfuscation
    • uglify
    • javascript
    • protection
    • obfuscate
  8. 8
    cryptomator/cryptomator15,435 · ⑂ 1,313

    Cryptomator for Windows, macOS, and Linux: Secure client-side encryption for your cloud storage, ensuring privacy and control over your data.

    • cryptomator
    • java
    • cloud-storage
    • cryptography
    • crypto
    • security
  9. 9
    zama-ai/bounty-program15,321 · ⑂ 438

    Zama Bounty Program: Contribute to the FHE space and Zama's open source libraries and get rewarded 💰

    • bounty-program
    • cryptography
    • fully-homomorphic-encryption
    • zama
  10. 10
    jedisct1/libsodium13,757 · ⑂ 1,877

    A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library.

    • crypto
    • cryptography
    • c
    • zig-package
  11. 11
    tink-crypto/tink13,544 · ⑂ 1,186

    Tink is a multi-language, cross-platform, open source library that provides cryptographic APIs that are secure, easy to use correctly, and hard(er) to misuse.

    • cryptography
    • java
    • cpp
    • go
    • objc
    • crypto
  12. 12
    monero-project/monero10,637 · ⑂ 3,471

    Monero: the secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency

    • c-plus-plus
    • monero
    • cryptocurrency
    • cmake
    • security
    • privacy
  13. 13
    krzyzanowskim/CryptoSwift10,554 · ⑂ 1,799

    CryptoSwift is a growing collection of standard and secure cryptographic algorithms implemented in Swift

    • swift
    • aes
    • cryptography
    • commoncrypto
    • cryptoswift
    • md5
  14. 14
    OpenMined/PySyft9,910 · ⑂ 2,001

    Perform data science on data that remains in someone else's server

    • deep-learning
    • secure-computation
    • pytorch
    • privacy
    • cryptography
    • python
  15. 15
    PrivateBin/PrivateBin8,398 · ⑂ 999

    A minimalist, open source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data. Data is encrypted/decrypted in the browser using 256 bits AES.

    • self-hosted
    • self-hosting
    • pastebin
    • security
    • one-time
    • self-destroy
  16. 16
    lightningnetwork/lnd8,153 · ⑂ 2,274

    Lightning Network Daemon ⚡️

    • bitcoin
    • lightning-network
    • blockchain
    • micropayments
    • lightning
    • protocol
  17. 17
    kroma-network/tachyon7,667 · ⑂ 234

    Modular ZK(Zero Knowledge) backend accelerated by GPU

    • cpp17
    • cuda
    • zk
    • blockchain
    • c-plus-plus
    • cryptography
  18. 18
    pyca/cryptography7,633 · ⑂ 1,775

    cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers.

    • python
    • cryptography
  19. 19
    rustls/rustls7,464 · ⑂ 843

    A modern TLS library in Rust

    • tls
    • cryptography
    • rust
    • ssl
  20. 20
    sobolevn/awesome-cryptography6,996 · ⑂ 764

    A curated list of cryptography resources and links.

    • crypto
    • cryptography
    • awesome-list
    • awesome
    • encryption
    • list
  21. 21
    RsaCtfTool/RsaCtfTool6,984 · ⑂ 996

    RSA attack tool (mainly for ctf) - retrieve private key from weak public key and/or uncipher data

    • rsa-attack
    • rsa
    • cryptography
  22. 22
    upspin/upspin6,398 · ⑂ 314

    Upspin: A framework for naming everyone's everything.

    • storage
    • golang
    • cryptography
    • sharing
    • fuse
    • upspin
  23. 23
    tendermint/tendermint5,863 · ⑂ 2,103

    ⟁ Tendermint Core (BFT Consensus) in Go

    • bft
    • go
    • distributed-systems
    • consistency
    • db
    • consensus
  24. 24
    weidai11/cryptopp5,466 · ⑂ 1,680

    free C++ class library of cryptographic schemes

    • cryptography
    • crypto
    • c-plus-plus
  25. 25
    cjdelisle/cjdns5,395 · ⑂ 603

    An encrypted IPv6 network using public-key cryptography for address allocation and a distributed hash table for routing.

    • cjdns
    • mesh
    • mesh-networks
    • fcp
    • networking
    • routing

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