CryptoTE – An Easy to Use Text Editor with Integrated Encryption
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This is the reason I wrote 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.
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)?
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.
The GitHub repo does show activity from 2014, however: https://github.com/bingmann/cryptote
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.
There are some potential issues I'm sure, but so far it has worked perfectly for me without any problems.
Basically, I just do something like `vim foo.txt.gpg` and it transparently encrypts/decrypts the contents.
Nope.