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Cobian Encryptor/Cobian Locker (coblock)
What are Cobian Encryptor and Cobian Locker?
Cobian Encryptor is a multiplatform (Windows, Linux and perhaps in the future OSX as well) easy-to-use tool that can be used to encrypt and decrypt individual files or folders. The format of the files (and keys) is 100% compatible with files and keys created with the command line version (Cobian Locker version 2).
Key Features
- Encrypt files or folders preserving the directory structure
- Decrypt files or folders preserving the directory structure
- Encrypt (or decrypt) using the symmetric AES method
- Encrypt (or decrypt) using the asymmetric RSA method
- Various key sizes are supported
Cobian Locker (coblock) is the command line version of Cobian Encryptor.
Cobian Locker is Open Source and distributed under the GPLv3 license. Cobian Encryptor is Freeware, but not Open Source.The source code for Cobian Locker is available at https://github.com/cobiansoft/coblock
Minimum requirements for both programs
There are no dependencies for these programs (everything is included in the executable for the command line version).
Minimum requirements on Windows: Windows 10 (1607) or newer
Minimum requirements on Windows Server: Windows Server 2012 or newer
Minimum requirements on Linux: Ubuntu 20.04 or newer, SUSE 15.5 or newer, Red Hat, 8 or newer, Fedora 40 or newer, Debian 12 or newer CentOS 9 or newer.
Minimum requirements on OSX (for Cobian Locker): OSX 13 or newer
Releases for Cobian Encryptor
There are no installers at this moment. Just unzip the archive and run Cobian.Encryptor.exe.
Version 1.0.00
For Windows x64: Download
For Windows x86: Download
For Windows ARM64: Download
For Linux x64: Download
For Linux ARM64: Download
For Linux ARM32: Download
Releases for Cobian Locker
Version 2.0.01
IMPORTANT: Version 2 produces files that are NOT compatible with version 1. If you have files produced with version 1, please, decrypt them with the first version and encrypt them again with version 2.
Version 2 ensures that the produced files will be correctly decrypted between machines regardless the use of big-endian or little endian archgitecture.
For Windows x64: Download
For Windows x86: Download
For Windows ARM64: Download
For OSX x64: Download
For OSX ARM64: Download
For Linux x64: Download
For Linux ARM64: Download
For Linux ARM32: Download
Version 1.2.00. Obsolete. Do NOT use
For Windows x64: Download
For Windows x86: Download
For Windows ARM64: Download
For OSX x64: Download
For OSX ARM64: Download
For Linux x64: Download
For Linux ARM64: Download
For Linux ARM32: Download
Installation
As this is a single executable, you can execute it from any directory.
For convenience, you could just copy it to c:\Windows\System32 in Windows or to /usr/local/bin on Linux or OSX.
Just remember to add the Executable flag to the program on Linux or OSX in order to make it runnable:
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/coblock
Usage
For usage, run the utility with the help verb as in
coblock help
to get information about all options.