EncryptPad

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What is EncryptPad good for?

You have a file containing sensitive information such as account names, passwords or ID numbers. It is stored on unprotected media or unwanted people can access the file. Such storage can be a computer at work, carried laptop, memory stick or a cloud drive.


You need protection against a brute force attack in case your storage gets in somebody's hands. EncryptPad allows to generate a key and store it separately from encrypted information. The unwanted person would need two secrets to open an encrypted file: the password and the key. Consider this example: you store your encrypted file on a memory stick, and protect it with a password. In addition to that, you protect the file with a file key and store the key on computers where you open the file. If the memory stick is lost, the password is not enough to decrypt your information. The key file is also needed and it is not on the memory stick.



Developer's website : http://evpo.net/encryptpad/

To download the source file and build it , these packages are required :

sudo apt install build-essential qt5-default python

Then build EncryptPad, assuming it is in your Home folder:

cd ~/encryptpad*
./configure.sh --all

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https://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how-t ... d-0190898/

For anyone wanting to keep information private, plain text is a format of the past. Instead, cheap, powerful encryption is widely available, but often not easy enough to use to attract widespread adoption. An exception to this rule is EncryptPad, an easy to use application that lets you encrypt text, photos, or archives with strong encryption using a password, keyfile, or both.

https://evpo.net/encryptpad/