Top 12 Ruby Encryption Projects

Backup

1 3 4,861 3.1 Ruby

Easy full stack backup operations on UNIX-like systems.
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PasswordPusher

2 82 2,799 9.9 Ruby

🔐 Securely share sensitive information with automatic expiration & deletion after a set number of views or duration. Track who, what and when with full audit logs.

Project mention: Password Pusher: Share secrets securely with self-deleting links and audit logs | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-07
lockbox

3 13 1,565 7.5 Ruby

Modern encryption for Ruby and Rails
rubyzip

4 1 1,402 8.8 Ruby

Official Rubyzip repository
Symmetric Encryption

5 0 476 0.0 Ruby

Symmetric Encryption for Ruby Projects using OpenSSL
arkana

6 2 438 8.6 Ruby

Use dotenv files for Android and iOS projects.
RocketJob

7 1 290 6.0 Ruby

Ruby's missing background and batch processing system
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invisible_ink

8 3 53 3.5 Ruby

Keep your private notes in plain sight.
2fas-backup-decryptor

9 1 23 8.2 Ruby

🔓 CLI tool to decrypt backup files exported from the 2FAS Authenticator app. This application is neither affiliated with Two Factor Authentication Service, Inc. nor 2FAS.
TSS - Threshold Secret Sharing

10 0 23 0.0 Ruby

A Ruby implementation of Threshold Secret Sharing (Shamir) as defined in IETF Internet-Draft draft-mcgrew-tss-03.txt
sessionKeys

11 0 1 0.0 Ruby

A tool for the deterministic generation of unique user IDs, and NaCl cryptographic keys from a single username and high entropy passphrase.
easy_encoding

12 0 0 0.0 Ruby

Easy encoding is a tool that allows you to encode and decode data.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Encryption projects in Ruby? This list will help you:

#	Project	Stars
1	Backup	4,861
2	PasswordPusher	2,799
3	lockbox	1,565
4	rubyzip	1,402
5	Symmetric Encryption	476
6	arkana	438
7	RocketJob	290
8	invisible_ink	53
9	2fas-backup-decryptor	23
10	TSS - Threshold Secret Sharing	23
11	sessionKeys	1
12	easy_encoding	0