Portable Secret

lastmod 2023-08-03created 2023-08-032 edits

Keeping passwords safe

Features

• A way to easily protect personal information with a "Little Hack", without any special software
  • Send encrypted messages/images/files, etc. over insecure channels (email, messaging, ...)
  • Store sensitive information (passwords, documents, etc.) in insecure storage (web, cloud drives, USB drives)
• Puts an encrypted payload in an HTML file and views it by calling the browser's Web Crypto API
• Has no external dependencies at all and works without an internet connection
• Generator source code is provided

Prior art

I came up with Portable Secret on my own, but I have since found a few projects that do something similar.

• StatiCrypt
• PolySafe
• hscrypt
• Hypervault
• Encrypted HTML Vault
• UltraCrypt
• html-vault
• Password Protect My File
• Emergency Contacts
• Digi-Cloak
• Pretty Easy Privacy

See also

• Key management
• Credential Store

Favorite site

• 🔐 Portable Secret | portable-secret
• mprimi/portable-secret: Better privacy without special software