ccrypt is a utility for the secure encryption and decryption of files and streams.
It was designed as a replacement for the standard UNIX crypt utility, which is notorious for using a very weak encryption algorithm.
ccrypt is based on the Rijndael cypher, the same cipher used in the AES standard.
However, in the AES standard a 128-bit block size is used, whereas ccrypt uses a 256-bit block size.
ccrypt does not provide an authenticated encryption scheme and therefore does not protect the integrity of encrypted data.