Comments on: Steganos Locknote standalone text encrypter

By: James

James — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:56:55 +0000

I find the locknote most useful on a thumbdrive. I keep username/password info for different sites, online billpay, email, etc. I don’t think this was meant as a way to distribute anything in encrypted packaging. It is very practical for my use. If I lose my thumbdrive, I don’t worry but I have all of my usernames/passwords with me when I need them.
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By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 15:17:17 +0000

Thanks for the tip mouser, will take a look at it soon.

By: mouser

mouser — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 05:41:46 +0000

f0dder on the DonationCoder.com forum made a similar tool with some advantages (including a smaller size), called fSekrit:
http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Other/fSekrit/index.html

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 16:33:54 +0000

The main advantage of locknote is that it is fast and easy to understand. I prefer True Crypt when it comes to full scale encryption.

By: Iain Cheyne

Iain Cheyne — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 16:02:37 +0000

You could always use PGP, but that’s only useful between technical people.

Email certificates, like those provided by CaCert, are good between suitable email clients, like Outlook.

By: Me

Me — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:27:22 +0000

Isn’t it more simple to crypt un zip folder with Windows ?

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:22:16 +0000

It does look easy, but there is one problem here - the encrypted files are executable which means that:

1. Outlook will automatically block them
2. More sensitive server side virus scans will likely block or strip them
3. Most users will be very suspicious of these files seeing how we spent years training them not to open executables even from a trusted source.

While the self executable solutions are convenient, they are not necessarily the best choice security-wise.