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Encryptr

Encryptr is a zero-knowledge cloud-based password manager / e-wallet powered by Crypton

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1.6KGitHub stars
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What it is

Encryptr is a zero-knowledge cloud-based password manager / e-wallet powered by Crypton

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by month13 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-08-01 02:43:09 UTC to 2016-04-27 02:00:21 UTC.

0123452014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 20142014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJun 20152015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 commentsApr 2016

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Aug 20142014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Sep 20142014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20142014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20142014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20142014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20152015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20152015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20152015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC101
May 20152015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20152015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20152015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC505
Aug 20152015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20152015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20152015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Nov 20152015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Dec 20152015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20162016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20162016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20162016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC413

What Hacker News says

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Encryptr's security bits are likely all implemented in the crypton framework. If you search the repo for that function (randomString), you'll see that it's only used in one place: to propose a new password (https://github.com/devgeeks/Encryptr/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q...). While it'd be best to not have any bias at all, this low bias only assists people trying to brute force passwords created by encryptr. Crypton itself has been audited a couple times by crypto persons, see https://crypton.io/docs/security/audits.html (disclaimer: i used to work at spideroak, but neither on crypton nor encryptr. i still think they're all awesome though)
In Encryptr – Free, open-source password manager and e-wallet
https://github.com/devgeeks/Encryptr/blob/64223f0cb4adba80c8... I'm a bit concerned that their random number generator might produce biased output. This is usually a red flag that there are other issues in the code that haven't been examined by a crypto person. Just a word of caution from a casual glance. For all I know the rest of the code is fine. For all I know, the rest of the code is clunky swiss cheese. Further reading on biased RNGs, with a visual: https://stackoverflow.com/a/31374501/2224584
In Encryptr – Free, open-source password manager and e-wallet
Looks interesting but 2 concerns: 1) On the releases (https://github.com/devgeeks/Encryptr/releases) it supports many platforms, but it seems to be only the client, being the server only offered as a cloud solution. It would be much more appealing if the source code of the server was also open source and you could host it on your own server 2) It claims to be zero-knowledge and suggests you to store your credit-card information and passwords there. Going back to point 1, if you could self-host it you could trust it more, but if you can't how can you know that it's not a very elaborate honey-pot to make the tin-foil crowd give up their most valuable secrets and data, including credit-card info and passwords?
In Encryptr Zero-Knowledge System Based Password Manager for Linux

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