Show HN: Password-Protect My File
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Show HN: Password-Protect My File
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#2How is this better than symmetric encryption with GnuPG?
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#3How is this better than symmetric encryption with GnuPG?
The encrypted result of this tool contains all the code necessary to decrypt itself (in a web browser).
I'm not too familiar with GnuPG, so I don't know if that's different.
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#4How is this better than symmetric encryption with GnuPG?
Does it claim to be better? The main advantage I can see is simplicity, even non-technical users should be able to figure it out.
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#5Should really highlight the fact that it could be self-hosted [0]. Typing a password and uploading a sensitive file is never a good idea.
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#7As soon as my file is readable by javascript it could be sent anywhere by your code. I'm not saying you do, but it could. Therefore this adds an unnecessary risk. I would have to disconnect my machine from the network and clear all the browser storage before reconnecting to even begin to think this was safe.
Just to be clear: I'm not saying it's useless, just that if the file I was encrypting was so important that I needed to encrypt it, doing it in a sandbox that is directly connected to an untrusted third-party wouldn't be a very bright move.
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#8If a user doesn't trust Dropbox, why would they trust passwordprotectmyfile.com?
I know it claims the file doesn't leave your computer, and that might be true right now, but in five minutes if I visit the page the code could have changed. And it would hardly be user-friendly to ask users to check the minified javascript before using it.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
The encrypted result of this tool contains all the code necessary to decrypt itself (in a web browser). I'm not too familiar with GnuPG, so I don't know if that's different.
Any browser?
Tested and working with recent Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari 6.1+, IE 10+. https://www.passwordprotectmyfile.com/faq.
It uses, among others, the Blob API so will not work on older browsers.
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#10Should really highlight the fact that it could be self-hosted [0]. Typing a password and uploading a sensitive file is never a good idea. [0] https://github.com/louissobel/ppmf
At first sight it seems the encryption is done by client-side javascript, so you don't gain much by hosting it yourself.