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CryptoTE – An Easy to Use Text Editor with Integrated Encryption

16 points by networked 11y ago

stygiansonic 11y ago
Seems like the latest binaries are from 2009? (Or maybe 2010?) The GitHub repo does show activity from 2014, however: https://github.com/bingmann/cryptote https://github.com/bingmann/cryptote
- dogma1138 11y ago
  It's not a good text editor either, it seems to be more like a password generator plugin for a text editor than a text editor on it's own. It uses Serpent instead of AES, it hasn't been audited, it can't be used well to cover large files, doesn't really have any good tools to work with text (RegEx isn't even implemented), uses it's own "proprietary" container format(which doesn't encrypt metadata) and overall is very inconvenient to use (e.g. can't use it to directly edit multiple files in the same directory, could be they want you to use their containers as directories but it doesn't have a good interface for that either). It's a nice trivia entry but can't really see any reason to use it or even a honest reason to recommend it to anyone.
srpeck 11y ago
"Compared to other "password keeper" programs, CryptoTE does not force any structure upon your data: it works with plain ASCII text and does not require you to fill in grids, key-value attributes, descriptions etc. Encryption is transparently performed..." This is the reason I wrote Encrypted (https://github.com/srpeck/encrypted https://github.com/srpeck/encrypted) - a single 21KB HTML file plaintext editor that uses SJCL to encrypt all data persisted to localStorage or disk. As a consultant I am often provided a work machine that I cannot install anything on - but there is guaranteed to be a browser.
- lighttower 11y ago
  > As a consultant I am often provided a work machine ... The employment act specifies several tests to determine if a worker is a contractor or employee. where employees are protected by the employment standards act and contractors are not. one of those tests is that a contractor/consultant uses their own equipment and does work at their schedule from whatever location. so if they enforce you to use their equipment from their premises does that make you an employee? which means they take income deductions at source (before you see the money)?
skrowl 11y ago
For comparison, Notepad++ has (https://notepad-plus-plus.org/ https://notepad-plus-plus.org/) several crypto plugins and is FLOSS
ctz 11y ago
"CRC32 value of the SubFile's real data. Used to verify decryption and decompression." Nope.
antitamper 11y ago
Just for those using this: this phones home to panthema.net when checking for updates. You might want to forcefully make it phone home, and then create a firewall rule for it. I inspected the traffic and it's fairly innocuous, but you never really know, unless you compile from source and leave out any third party TCP connections, which I have done.
neilh23 11y ago
Vim's built-in encryption is pretty useful, although the default cipher is weak (you can override this in the vimrc).
- IgorPartola 11y ago
  I didn't know vim had any built-in encryption. I've been using this for a while: https://gist.github.com/ipartola/ea5a88675cc548425ecb https://gist.github.com/ipartola/ea5a88675cc548425ecb Basically, I just do something like `vim foo.txt.gpg` and it transparently encrypts/decrypts the contents.
mordocai 11y ago
Emacs has a pretty good "transparent" encryption mode too, for those interested. https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EasyPG https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EasyPG There are some potential issues I'm sure, but so far it has worked perfectly for me without any problems.

16 points by networked 11y ago

Seems like the latest binaries are from 2009? (Or maybe 2010?) The GitHub repo does show activity from 2014, however: https://github.com/bingmann/cryptote https://github.com/bingmann/cryptote

dogma1138 11y ago
It's not a good text editor either, it seems to be more like a password generator plugin for a text editor than a text editor on it's own. It uses Serpent instead of AES, it hasn't been audited, it can't be used well to cover large files, doesn't really have any good tools to work with text (RegEx isn't even implemented), uses it's own "proprietary" container format(which doesn't encrypt metadata) and overall is very inconvenient to use (e.g. can't use it to directly edit multiple files in the same directory, could be they want you to use their containers as directories but it doesn't have a good interface for that either). It's a nice trivia entry but can't really see any reason to use it or even a honest reason to recommend it to anyone.

srpeck 11y ago

"Compared to other "password keeper" programs, CryptoTE does not force any structure upon your data: it works with plain ASCII text and does not require you to fill in grids, key-value attributes, descriptions etc. Encryption is transparently performed..." This is the reason I wrote Encrypted (https://github.com/srpeck/encrypted https://github.com/srpeck/encrypted) - a single 21KB HTML file plaintext editor that uses SJCL to encrypt all data persisted to localStorage or disk. As a consultant I am often provided a work machine that I cannot install anything on - but there is guaranteed to be a browser.

lighttower 11y ago
> As a consultant I am often provided a work machine ... The employment act specifies several tests to determine if a worker is a contractor or employee. where employees are protected by the employment standards act and contractors are not. one of those tests is that a contractor/consultant uses their own equipment and does work at their schedule from whatever location. so if they enforce you to use their equipment from their premises does that make you an employee? which means they take income deductions at source (before you see the money)?

skrowl 11y ago

For comparison, Notepad++ has (https://notepad-plus-plus.org/ https://notepad-plus-plus.org/) several crypto plugins and is FLOSS

ctz 11y ago

"CRC32 value of the SubFile's real data. Used to verify decryption and decompression." Nope.

antitamper 11y ago

Just for those using this: this phones home to panthema.net when checking for updates. You might want to forcefully make it phone home, and then create a firewall rule for it. I inspected the traffic and it's fairly innocuous, but you never really know, unless you compile from source and leave out any third party TCP connections, which I have done.

neilh23 11y ago

Vim's built-in encryption is pretty useful, although the default cipher is weak (you can override this in the vimrc).

IgorPartola 11y ago
I didn't know vim had any built-in encryption. I've been using this for a while: https://gist.github.com/ipartola/ea5a88675cc548425ecb https://gist.github.com/ipartola/ea5a88675cc548425ecb Basically, I just do something like `vim foo.txt.gpg` and it transparently encrypts/decrypts the contents.

mordocai 11y ago

Emacs has a pretty good "transparent" encryption mode too, for those interested. https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EasyPG https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EasyPG There are some potential issues I'm sure, but so far it has worked perfectly for me without any problems.