List of applications/Security

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.
http://ee.lbl.gov/ || arpwatch
  • 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.
https://fedorahosted.org/iptraf-ng/ || iptraf-ng
  • Nmap — Security scanner used to discover hosts and services on a computer network, thus creating a "map" of the network.
http://nmap.org/ || nmap
  • Ntop — Network probe that shows network usage in a way similar to what top does for processes.
http://www.ntop.org/ || ntop
  • 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.
http://www.sshguard.net/ || sshguard
  • 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.
http://www.tcpdump.org/ || tcpdump
  • vnStat — Console-based network traffic monitor that keeps a log of network traffic for the selected interfaces.
http://humdi.net/vnstat/ || vnstat
  • Wireshark — Network protocol analyzer that lets you capture and interactively browse the traffic running on a computer network.
http://www.wireshark.org/ || wireshark-cli wireshark-gtk

Threat and vulnerability detection

  • Metasploit Framework — An advanced open-source platform for developing, testing, and using exploit code.
http://www.metasploit.com/ || metasploitAUR
  • Nessus — Comprehensive vulnerability scanning program.
http://www.nessus.org/products/nessus || nessusAUR
  • Tripwire — Intrusion detection system.
http://tripwire.sourceforge.net/ || tripwireAUR

File security

  • AIDE — File and directory integrity checker.
http://aide.sourceforge.net/ || aide
  • Logwatch — Customizable log analysis system.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/logwatch/ || logwatch
  • Swatch — Utility that can monitor just about any type of log.
http://swatch.sourceforge.net/ || swatchAUR

Backup programs

See the main article: Backup programs.

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of backup software.

Screen lockers

Warning: Only sflock, physlock, Cinnamon Screensaver, MATE Screensaver and GNOME Screensaver are able to block tty access.
  • Cinnamon Screensaver — Screen locker for the Cinnamon desktop.
https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver || cinnamon-screensaver
  • GNOME Screensaver — Screen locker for the GNOME Flashback desktop.
https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/GnomeScreensaver || gnome-screensaver
  • i3lock — A simple screen locker. Provides user feedback, uses PAM authentication, supports DPMS. The background can be set to an image or solid color.
http://i3wm.org/i3lock/ || i3lock
  • i3lock-blur — Fork of i3lock which can use your desktop with the blur effect applied as a background.
http://github.com/karulont/i3lock-blur || i3lock-blurAUR
  • i3lock-wrapper — A simple wrapper around i3lock which sets up a blurred screenshot of the desktop as a background image.
https://github.com/ashinkarov/i3-extras || i3lock-wrapperAUR
  • 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
https://github.com/the-cavalry/light-locker || light-locker
  • MATE Screensaver — Screensaver and locker for MATE Desktop Environment.
https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-screensaver || mate-screensaver
  • physlock — Screen and console locker.
https://github.com/muennich/physlock || physlockAUR
  • sflock — Simple screen locker utility for X, based on slock. Provides a very basic user feedback.
https://github.com/benruijl/sflock || sflock-gitAUR
  • slock — Very simple and lightweight X screen locker. Offers only a black background when locked, there are no animations or text fields.
http://tools.suckless.org/slock || slock
  • 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.
https://github.com/lahwaacz/sxlock || sxlock-gitAUR
  • XScreenSaver — Screen saver and locker for the X Window System
http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/ || xscreensaver
  • XSecureLock — X11 screen lock utility designed with the primary goal of security
https://github.com/google/xsecurelock || xsecurelock-gitAUR

Hash checkers

  • cfv — Tiny utility to both test and create checksum files, support .sfv, .csv, .crc, .md5, md5sum, sha1sum, .torrent, par, and .par2 files.
http://cfv.sourceforge.net/ || cfv
  • GtkHash — A GTK+ utility for computing message digests or checksums
http://gtkhash.sourceforge.net/ || gtkhashAUR
  • hashdeep — A cross-platform tools to computer hashes, or message digests, for any number of files
http://md5deep.sourceforge.net/ || md5deepAUR
  • Parano — A GNOME frontend for creating/editing/checking MD5 and SFV files
http://parano.berlios.de/ || paranoAUR
  • 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.
http://rhash.anz.ru/ || rhash
  • 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.
http://jdleicher.github.io/MassHash/ || masshashAUR

Encryption, signing, steganography

  • ccrypt — A command-line utility for encrypting and decrypting files and streams.
http://ccrypt.sourceforge.net/ || ccrypt
  • 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.
http://gnupg.org/ || gnupg
  • 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
http://www.darkside.com.au/snow/ || snowAUR
  • steghide — A steganography utility that is able to hide data in various kinds of image and audio files.
http://steghide.sourceforge.net || steghide
  • stegparty — A steganography utility hides text by typoing text existing text files.
https://github.com/countrygeek/stegparty || stegpartyAUR

Password managers

  • Console Password Manager — Curses based password manager using PGP-encryption.
http://github.com/comotion/cpm || cpmAUR
http://als.regnet.cz/fpm2/ || fpm2AUR
  • GPass — Password manegement software for GNOME2 desktop.
http://projects.netlab.jp/gpass/ || gpassAUR
  • GPassword Manager — Simple, lightweight and cross-platform utility for managing and accessing passwords.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gpasswordman/ || gpasswordmanAUR
  • Gtkpass — Gtkpass is a GTK and Libkpass-based password manager for KeePass 1.x databases.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gtkpass/ || gtkpassAUR
  • Ked Password Manager — A password manager that helps to manage large numbers of passwords.
http://kedpm.sourceforge.net || kedpmAUR
  • KeePass Password Safe — Free open source Mono-based password manager, which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way.
http://keepass.info/ || keepass
  • KeePassC — KeePassC is a curses-based password manager compatible to KeePass v.1.x and KeePassX.
https://raymontag.github.com/keepassc || keepasscAUR
  • KeePassX — Free and open source Qt-based password manager (uses KeePass 1.x databases for storage).
http://www.keepassx.org/ || keepassx
  • 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).
http://www.semanticgap.com/myps/ || mypasswordsafeAUR
  • Pasaffe — Easy to use password manager for Gnome with a Password Safe 3.0 compatible database.
https://launchpad.net/pasaffe || pasaffeAUR
  • pass — Simple console based password manager
http://www.passwordstore.org/ || pass
  • Password Gorilla — A cross-platform password manager.
https://github.com/zdia/gorilla/wiki/ || password-gorillaAUR gorillaAUR
  • Password Safe — Simple and secure password manager.
http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/ || passwordsafeAUR
  • pwsafe — Unix commandline program that manages encrypted password databases.
http://nsd.dyndns.org/pwsafe/ || pwsafe
  • QPass — Easy to use password manager with built-in password generator.
http://qpass.sourceforge.net || qpassAUR
  • Revelation — Password manager for the GNOME desktop.
http://revelation.olasagasti.info/ || revelationAUR
  • Seahorse — GNOME application for managing encryption keys and passwords in the GnomeKeyring.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Seahorse || seahorse
  • Universal Password Manager — Allows you to store usernames, passwords, URLs and generic notes in an encrypted database protected by one master password.
http://upm.sourceforge.net/ || upmAUR