Resources

• About – A high level introduction to SQLCipher's use and history
• Design – SQLCipher’s design philosophy and security features
• Documentation – How to integrate SQLCipher into your projects and products
• Open Source – Download SQLCipher Community Edition code
• Buy – Purchase pre-built binaries
• Support – Options for general or commercal support
• License – Information regarding the licensing of SQLCipher

Features

SQLCipher has a small footprint and great performance so it’s ideal for protecting embedded application databases and is well suited for mobile development.

• Blazing fast performance with as little as 5-15% overhead for encryption
• 100% of data in the database file is encrypted
• Uses good security practices (CBC mode, key derivation)
• Zero-configuration and application level cryptography
• Algorithms provided by the peer reviewed OpenSSL crypto library

SQLCipher has broad platform support for with C/C++, Obj-C, QT, Win32/.NET, Java, Python, Ruby, Linux, Mac OS X, iPhone/iOS, Android, Xamarin.iOS, and Xamarin.Android