# henryboldi/felony

🔑🔥📈 Next Level PGP

Repository: https://github.com/henryboldi/felony
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/felony
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: pgp, electron, react, encrypted-messages, encryption
Last push: 2019-03-27T02:13:25+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3891, "days_push": 2717, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3461, forks 128 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:05.651278+00:00)

## What it is
Felony is an open-source PGP keychain desktop app built with Electron, React, and Redux, designed to make PGP encryption approachable for non-technical users. It lets users manage public keys in a 'buddies' list and encrypt messages that can be pasted and sent anywhere, such as social media or messaging apps.

## Use cases
- encrypt messages with pgp without learning command-line tools
- manage a keychain of friends' public keys
- send encrypted messages over twitter dms or facebook messenger
- share sensitive info like addresses securely with a recipient
- generate and use pgp keys in a simple gui

## When to choose
- you want a beginner-friendly graphical PGP client
- you need to exchange encrypted messages through any chat platform
- you prefer an open-source, MIT-licensed encryption app

## When to avoid
- you need actively maintained software with recent security updates
- you require enterprise-grade key management or hardware token support
- you need a CLI or programmatic PGP library

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: cryptography, security, gui
- domain: security, privacy, desktop-applications, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform, windows
- tags: pgp, keychain, encrypted-messaging, openpgp, electron-app, desktop, macos, linux, electron

## Member repositories
- henryboldi/felony (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:05.651278+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:36:55.416234+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/henryboldi/felony (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:05.651278+00:00, sha 9ca8e07b7396)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.