List of applications/Security - ArchWiki

# 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/ || honeyd

- 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

- PortBunny — Extremly fast console port scanner.

  http://www.recurity-labs.com/portbunny/index.shtml || portbunny

- Snort — Network intrusion prevention and detection system.

  http://www.snort.org/ || snort

- 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/ || metasploit

- Nessus — Comprehensive vulnerability scanning program.

  http://www.nessus.org/products/nessus || nessus

- Tripwire — Intrusion detection system.

  http://tripwire.sourceforge.net/ || tripwire

#### 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/ || swatch

#### 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-blur

- 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-wrapper

- 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 || physlock-git

- sflock — Simple screen locker utility for X, based on slock. Provides a very basic user feedback.

  https://github.com/benruijl/sflock || sflock-git

- 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-git

- 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-git

#### 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/ || gtkhash

- hashdeep — A cross-platform tools to computer hashes, or message digests, for any number of files

  http://md5deep.sourceforge.net/ || md5deep

- Parano — A GNOME frontend for creating/editing/checking MD5 and SFV files

  http://parano.berlios.de/ || parano

- 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/ || masshash

#### 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/ || snow

- 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 || stegparty

#### Password managers

- Console Password Manager — Curses based password manager using PGP-encryption.

  http://github.com/comotion/cpm || cpm

- Figaro's Password Manager 2 — GTK2 port of Figaro's Password Manager with some new enhancements.

  http://als.regnet.cz/fpm2/ || fpm2

- GPass — Password manegement software for GNOME2 desktop.

  http://projects.netlab.jp/gpass/ || gpass

- GPassword Manager — Simple, lightweight and cross-platform utility for managing and accessing passwords.

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/gpasswordman/ || gpasswordman

- Gtkpass — Gtkpass is a GTK and Libkpass-based password manager for KeePass 1.x databases.

  https://sourceforge.net/projects/gtkpass/ || gtkpass

- Ked Password Manager — A password manager that helps to manage large numbers of passwords.

  http://kedpm.sourceforge.net || kedpm

- KeePass Password Safe — Free open source 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 || keepassc

- KeePassX — Application for people with extremly high demands on secure personal data management.

  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/ || mypasswordsafe

- Pasaffe — Easy to use password manager for Gnome with a Password Safe 3.0 compatible database.

  https://launchpad.net/pasaffe || pasaffe

- pass — Simple console based password manager

  http://www.zx2c4.com/projects/password-store/ || pass

- Password Gorilla — A cross-platform password manager.

  https://github.com/zdia/gorilla/wiki/ || password-gorilla gorilla

- Password Safe — Simple and secure password manager.

  http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/ || passwordsafe

- 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 || qpass

- Revelation — Password manager for the GNOME desktop.

  http://revelation.olasagasti.info/ || revelation

- 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/ || upm

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