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Old Crypto Projects that Might have not Sucked Years Ago Left Here for Posterity

Note: I stopped maintaining this in 2018, so it's very out of date.

This document originated with an informal survey of Twitter and several mailing lists asking for nominations for crypto projects that "didn't suck". It is from ~2014-2018 and is very out of date. Take it as a historical document. Over 100 nominations were received and culled down to this list. Projects marked with an "☢" symbol were relatively new and considered experimental at the time. Apologies to project creators who are omitted. Corrections are welcome via pull request.

End User Tool Summary

This is a quick summary of tools that are generally recommended for end users. See the EFF's Surveillance Self Defense guides or Press Freedom Foundation's Encryption Works guide for more information.

The People’s Choice

Honorable Mentions

The SSL Libraries

JavaScript Crypto Libraries

Online Storage

Libraries and Frameworks

Post Quantum Libraries

Community Efforts

Experimental Toolkits

Certificate and Key Management Tools

Verification & Automation Tools

Miscellaneous Project

Learning and Resources

Maybe Sucky Secret Managers

There are many secret key value managers and I don't know which are any good. Including them here for future reference:

PGP sucks but I'm still including it