I use this to compress/decompress and encrypt/decrypt folders

Installation and uninstall

cargo install --git https://github.com/elenndev/crip-crypt.git
cargo uninstall crip-crypt

Usage

Encrypt a folder

Compresses and encrypts an entire directory into a single .tar.gz.age file.

crip-crypt encrypt <folder_path> <output_directory> --password <password>

Example:

crip-crypt encrypt ./documents ./backups --password good-password

folder-backup-YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM-SS.tar.gz.age

example output:

backups/
└── folder-backup-2026-05-30_18-42-15.tar.gz.age

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Decrypt a backup

Decrypts and extracts a previously generated backup.

crip-crypt decrypt <encrypted_file> <output_directory> --password <password>

example:

crip-crypt decrypt \
    ./backups/folder-backup-2026-05-30_18-42-15.tar.gz.age \
    ./restored \
    --password good-password