EncryptPad
Simple and Free Encrypted Text Editor
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EncryptPad is an application for viewing and editing symmetrically encrypted text. Using a simple and convenient graphical and command line interface, EncryptPad provides a tool for encrypting and decrypting binary files on disk while offering effective measures for protecting information, and it uses the most widely chosen quality file format OpenPGP RFC 4880. Unlike other OpenPGP software which the main purpose is asymmetric encryption, the primary focus of EncryptPad is symmetric encryption.
EncryptPad is a text editor that allows us to encrypt files that will be stored on your local computer. It allows users to protect data or text files that will be stored either by using passwords, key files or both. In addition, the text editor is also very simple, free and open source.
This application can help you when saving files that contain important and sensitive information such as usernames, passwords on computers where you do not have control over it will it be its locations such as office computers, or files stored in the cloud server. Or on your personal laptop that you carry while traveling, because lately inspection at the airport is getting tighter and strict, of course, you do not want other people to see sensitive information about you.
Another advantage of this application is its capability to encrypt binary files such as videos, photos, and archives stored on local computers.
EncryptPad can be installed on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS.
Here are some features provided by EncryptPad as quoted from its website;
Features
- Symmetric encryption
- Passphrase protection
- Key file protection
- Combination of passphrase and key file
- Random key file generator
- Key repository in a hidden directory in the user's home folder
- Path to a key file can be stored in an encrypted file. If enabled, you do not need to specify the key file every time you open files.
- Encryption of binary files (images, videos, archives etc.)
- Read-only mode to prevent accidental file modification
- UTF8 text encoding
- Windows/Unix configurable line endings
- Customisable passphrase generator helps create strong random passphrases.
- File format compatible with OpenPGP
- Iterated and salted S2K
- Passphrases are not kept in the memory for reuse, only S2K results
- Cipher algorithms: CAST5, TripleDES, AES128, AES256
- Hash algorithms: SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-512
- Integrity protection: SHA-1
- Compression: ZLIB, ZIP
- Large multi-gigabyte files are supported
Overall, this application is a worthy application to try and use to encrypt sensitive files that we have and protect them from irresponsible people.
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Thanks for the quick review. I don't think this hunt going to climb into higher rank since it's only left 45 minutes for today's rank :D
I really appreciate it.
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Nice. You could just use vim + gpg.
Create file:
$ vim /tmp/textfile
Encrypt file:
$ gpg -c /tmp/textfile.txt
Then copy to somewhere safe:
$ cp /tmp/textfile.txt.gpg /media/ENCRYPTED-SSD/YOLO
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Hi @shebeleeza, thanks for the suggestions and feedbacks, vim editor is amazing, with a few extra tweaks it will be a powerful text editor, I do not doubt it.
However, text-based editors are sometimes too complicated and not user-friendly for beginners, unless the one who uses them is a nerd or a geek: D. EncryptPad has a simple and very user friendly GUI look and also has the capability to encrypt binary files like images, videos and so on.
Again, thanks for this insightfull feedback.
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Congratulation! Your hunt was ranked in 113th place on 20 Jul 2018 on Steemhunt.
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