As security concerns grow among people, programs that allow encryption of their data become popular and interesting. Today you will meet a text editor that has these properties, Encryptpad.
As security concerns grow among people, programs that allow encryption of their data become popular and interesting. Today you will meet a text editor that has these properties, Encryptpad.
Once you first see Encryptpad you will understand how simple to use it. Above all he is also a text editor, so he has tools popular with any text editor, but what really sets him apart is the ability to encrypt the contents of the document you create.
Among the main features of the application, we can highlight:
– Super for Windows, Linux and macOS;
– Support to Passphrase is for Key file or the combination of the two;
– Customizable password generator;
– Support for binary encryption;
– Save documents in "Read Only" mode;
– Support there are several algorithms for password creation and encryption;
– Zlib or ZIP compression support.
How to install Encryptpad on your computer?
As commented at the beginning of the article, Encryptpad supports today's major operating systems, you will find installation instructions directly on your GitHub page. For Ubuntu and Linux Mint users, as well as their derivatives, just add this PPA. Just copy the command below and paste it into the terminal, press "enter", enter your password, press "enter" again and wait for the installation:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa: nilarimogard / webupd8 -y && sudo apt update && sudo apt install encryptpad encryptcli -y
For those who don't like to use Terminal, just add PPA: ppa: nilarimogard / webupd8
The packages needed to install (you can use Synaptic for this) are as follows:
– encryptpad
– encryptcli
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