🔐 Encrypto

Encrypt entire folders with a single command.

AES-256-CBC encryption for all files, recursively.

You have a folder of sensitive files and want to lock it down quickly. Encrypto walks the directory tree, encrypts every file with AES-256-CBC via OpenSSL, and removes the originals. One command, one password, done.

• 🔒 AES-256-CBC — industry-standard encryption via OpenSSL
• 📁 Recursive — encrypts all files in a directory and subdirectories
• 🛡️ Double confirmation — prompts for password twice to prevent typos
• 🚫 Skip-safe — won't double-encrypt files already ending in .enc
• 📂 Multi-folder — encrypt multiple directories in one command

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Install

Requires Rust and OpenSSL (pre-installed on macOS).

cargo build --release
cp target/release/encrypto ~/bin/

Usage

# Encrypt a folder
encrypto -e -f ./secrets
# → prompts for password (hidden input)
# → encrypts all files, appends .enc, removes originals

# Decrypt it back
encrypto -d -f ./secrets
# → prompts for password
# → decrypts all .enc files, restores originals

# Multiple folders
encrypto -e -f ./folder1 ./folder2 ./folder3

CLI

Flag	Description
-e, --encrypt	Encrypt mode
-d, --decrypt	Decrypt mode
-f, --folder-paths	One or more folder paths

How It Works

Encrypto uses walkdir to traverse directories recursively. For each file, it shells out to OpenSSL:

openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -salt -in file.txt -out file.enc -pass pass:***

Encrypted files get the .enc suffix. On decryption, the suffix is stripped and the encrypted version is removed. A password backup is saved to ~/.encpass as a recovery mechanism.

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Personal tool for quick folder encryption. Feel free to fork and adapt.