List of applications/Security
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Security
For detailed guides, see the main ArchWiki page, Security.
Firewalls
See the main article: Firewalls.
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of firewalls.
Network security
- Arpwatch — Tool that monitors ethernet activity and keeps a database of Ethernet/IP address pairings.
- Honeyd — Tool that allows the user to set up and run multiple virtual hosts on a computer network.
- http://www.honeyd.org/ || honeydAUR
- IPTraf — Console-based network monitoring utility.
- Nmap — Security scanner used to discover hosts and services on a computer network, thus creating a "map" of the network.
- Ntop — Network probe that shows network usage in a way similar to what top does for processes.
- Snort — Network intrusion prevention and detection system.
- http://www.snort.org/ || snortAUR
- Sshguard — Daemon that protects SSH and other services against brute-force attacts, similar to Fail2ban.
- Tcpdump — Common console-based packet analyzer that allows the user to intercept and display TCP/IP and other packets being transmitted or received over a network.
- vnStat — Console-based network traffic monitor that keeps a log of network traffic for the selected interfaces.
- Wireshark — Network protocol analyzer that lets you capture and interactively browse the traffic running on a computer network.
Threat and vulnerability detection
- Metasploit Framework — An advanced open-source platform for developing, testing, and using exploit code.
- Nessus — Comprehensive vulnerability scanning program.
- Tripwire — Intrusion detection system.
File security
- AIDE — File and directory integrity checker.
- Logwatch — Customizable log analysis system.
- Swatch — Utility that can monitor just about any type of log.
Backup programs
See the main article: Backup programs.
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of backup software.
Screen lockers
- Cinnamon Screensaver — Screen locker for the Cinnamon desktop.
- GNOME Screensaver — Screen locker for the GNOME Flashback desktop.
- i3lock — A simple screen locker. Provides user feedback, uses PAM authentication, supports DPMS. The background can be set to an image or solid color.
- i3lock-blur — Fork of i3lock which can use your desktop with the blur effect applied as a background.
- i3lock-wrapper — A simple wrapper around i3lock which sets up a blurred screenshot of the desktop as a background image.
- Light-locker — A simple locker (forked from gnome-screensaver) that aims to have simple, sane, secure defaults and be well integrated with the desktop while not carrying any desktop-specific dependencies. It relies on LightDM for locking and unlocking your session via ConsoleKit/UPower or logind/systemd
- MATE Screensaver — Screensaver and locker for MATE Desktop Environment.
- physlock — Screen and console locker.
- sflock — Simple screen locker utility for X, based on slock. Provides a very basic user feedback.
- slock — Very simple and lightweight X screen locker. Offers only a black background when locked, there are no animations or text fields.
- sxlock — Fork of sflock with a few enhancements. Provides basic user feedback, uses PAM authentication, supports DPMS and RandR. Supports
sxlock.service
to lock the screen on suspend/hibernation. See the README for more information.
- XScreenSaver — Screen saver and locker for the X Window System
- XSecureLock — X11 screen lock utility designed with the primary goal of security
Hash checkers
- cfv — Tiny utility to both test and create checksum files, support
.sfv
,.csv
,.crc
,.md5
,md5sum
,sha1sum
,.torrent
,par
, and.par2
files.
- GtkHash — A GTK+ utility for computing message digests or checksums
- hashdeep — A cross-platform tools to computer hashes, or message digests, for any number of files
- Parano — A GNOME frontend for creating/editing/checking MD5 and SFV files
- Quick Hash GUI — A GUI to enable the rapid selection and subsequent hashing of files (individually or recursively throughout a folder structure) text and (on Linux) disks.
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/quickhash/ || not packaged? search in AUR
- RHash — Utility for verifying hash sums (SFV, CRC, etc). Supports lots of algorithms.
- MassHash — A set of file hashing tools (both CLI and GTK+ GUI) written in Python. Supported algorithms include MD5, SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512.
Encryption, signing, steganography
- ccrypt — A command-line utility for encrypting and decrypting files and streams.
- GnuPG — The GNU project's complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined by RFC4880. Free and Open Source replacement of PGP, mostly used for digital signing of packages.
- gzsteg — A utiltiy that can hide data in gzip compressed files
- http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/crypt/steganography/ || not packaged? search in AUR
- silenteye — A steganography application written in C++, use Qt4 library.
- http://www.silenteye.org/ || not packaged? search in AUR
- snow — Steganography program for concealing messages in text files
- steghide — A steganography utility that is able to hide data in various kinds of image and audio files.
- stegparty — A steganography utility hides text by typoing text existing text files.
Password managers
- Console Password Manager — Curses based password manager using PGP-encryption.
- Figaro's Password Manager 2 — GTK2 port of Figaro's Password Manager with some new enhancements.
- GPass — Password manegement software for GNOME2 desktop.
- GPassword Manager — Simple, lightweight and cross-platform utility for managing and accessing passwords.
- Gtkpass — Gtkpass is a GTK and Libkpass-based password manager for KeePass 1.x databases.
- Ked Password Manager — A password manager that helps to manage large numbers of passwords.
- KeePass Password Safe — Free open source Mono-based password manager, which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way.
- KeePassC — KeePassC is a curses-based password manager compatible to KeePass v.1.x and KeePassX.
- KeePassX — Free and open source Qt-based password manager (uses KeePass 1.x databases for storage).
- MyPasswords — What you need for managing your passwords, including the passwords of your online accounts, bank accounts and ... with the corresponding URLs.
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/mypasswords7/ || not packaged? search in AUR
- MyPasswordSafe — Easy-to-use QT based password manager, compatible with Password Safe files (and therefore pwsafe).
- Pasaffe — Easy to use password manager for Gnome with a Password Safe 3.0 compatible database.
- pass — Simple console based password manager
- Password Gorilla — A cross-platform password manager.
- Password Safe — Simple and secure password manager.
- pwsafe — Unix commandline program that manages encrypted password databases.
- QPass — Easy to use password manager with built-in password generator.
- Revelation — Password manager for the GNOME desktop.
- Seahorse — GNOME application for managing encryption keys and passwords in the GnomeKeyring.
- Universal Password Manager — Allows you to store usernames, passwords, URLs and generic notes in an encrypted database protected by one master password.