Vernam
“Vernam” is a command line tool encrypt or decrypt data and files. It uses a cryptographic secure pseudo random number generator (CSPRNG) to generate
a pseudo random stream of key data based on a user password and a random salt to encrypt (and decrypt) any plain (and cipher) data. This algorithm is known as
Vernam cipher named after the engineer
Gilbert Vernam.
The program is open source, i.e. the source code is freely available. A short user guide is available from the program by “vernam --help”.
