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FREE ONLINE ENCRYPTION & CRYPTOGRAPHY TOOLSTwo thousand years of secrets, one toolbox.

From Caesar's shift to AES-256 — 62 working cryptography tools that run entirely in your browser. Your keys, passwords, and plaintext never touch a server.

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HASHED IN YOUR BROWSER AS YOU TYPE — THE WAY EVERY TOOL HERE WORKS

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TOOL DIRECTORY · 62 LIVE

Symmetric Encryption

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Encrypt and decrypt text with a shared secret key. Modern authenticated ciphers and legacy block modes, running entirely in your browser.

Public-Key Cryptography

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Generate key pairs, exchange keys, and encrypt with RSA and elliptic curves. Keys are generated locally and never uploaded.

Hashing & Checksums

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One-way functions for integrity, authenticity, and identity. Hash text and files with every digest from CRC8 to SHA-512.

Password Hashing & KDF

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Slow, salted, memory-hard functions built to protect credentials and derive keys from passwords.

PKI & Certificates

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Inspect, decode, and convert the certificate formats that underpin TLS — PEM, DER, and raw ASN.1 structures.

Encoding & Radix

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The formats data travels in — Base64, hex, URL escapes, JWTs, and every radix in between.

Classical Ciphers & CTF

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Two thousand years of pen-and-paper cryptography — and the analysis tools that break it. Built for learning and Capture The Flag.

Randomness & Secrets

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High-entropy passwords, passphrases, identifiers, and codes — generated by your browser's CSPRNG, never by a server.

FIELD GUIDES

Learn the decisions behind the tools.

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FUNDAMENTALS

Encoding vs Encryption vs Hashing: The Difference, With Examples

Encoding, encryption and hashing all turn data into gibberish, but only one keeps secrets. Learn the difference with real Base64, AES and SHA-256 examples and when to use each.

6 MIN READ
SYMMETRIC · AES

AES-GCM vs CBC vs CTR vs ECB: Which AES Mode Should You Use?

AES is only as safe as its mode. Compare ECB, CBC, CTR and GCM — how each works, how each fails, and why AES-GCM (or ChaCha20-Poly1305) is the right default in 2026.

7 MIN READ
KDF · PASSWORDS

Argon2id vs bcrypt vs scrypt vs PBKDF2: Password Hashing in 2026

Which password hashing algorithm should you use? A practical comparison of Argon2id, bcrypt, scrypt and PBKDF2 with OWASP-recommended parameters, hash formats, pitfalls and migration steps.

6 MIN READ
HASHING · HOW-TO

How to Verify a SHA-256 Checksum on Windows, macOS and Linux

Step-by-step commands to check a file's SHA-256 hash on Windows (PowerShell, certutil), macOS and Linux — plus how to verify the checksum file itself with GPG, and what a mismatch means.

5 MIN READ
HASHING · SECURITY

Is MD5 Still Safe? When MD5 and SHA-1 Are (and Aren't) OK to Use

MD5 and SHA-1 are broken — but not for everything. Learn exactly which attacks exist, where MD5 and SHA-1 are still acceptable, where they are dangerous, and what to use instead.

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JWT · WEB SECURITY

How to Decode a JWT — and 7 Security Mistakes That Get Tokens Forged

What's inside a JSON Web Token, how to decode and verify one safely, and the real-world JWT vulnerabilities — alg:none, key confusion, weak secrets — with the fix for each.

6 MIN READ
WHY ENCRYPT.TOOLS

Your secrets never leave the browser.

Nothing is uploaded

Every tool runs client-side with the Web Crypto API and audited open-source libraries. Your keys, passwords, and plaintext are processed on your device and never sent to a server.

No account, no ads

There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to install. Open a tool and use it — free, with no tracking of what you encrypt or hash.

Real, verifiable crypto

Modern tools use the browser's native Web Crypto and vetted libraries like @noble and OpenPGP.js. Classical ciphers are checked against published test vectors.