Secure Notepad : Encrypt the important text files!

  20 Sep 2007 by ReviewSaurus

secure-notepad-screenshot Secure Notepad is a small notepad replacement which has exact look and feel of Microsoft Notepad. Now what’s “Secure” in this notepad is that it fades out the text when you switch to the secure mode and that’s done by removing the focus from the window.

It also minimizes on its own after few seconds of inactivity and the best and real secure part comes in when you try to save the file. The software allows you to put two levels of security and that makes your text files secure.

1. Key File : You can chose any file as key file and next time when you open up that secure text file, then you have to point the same file as the key file which you chose at the time of encrypting the file. Important thing to note is that you have to make sure that the content of the key file never changes.

2. Pass phrase : This approach will allow you to encrypt the file using a password and the software uses Blowfish encryption algorithm to encrypt the file.

PROS of Secure Notepad :

In case you have some text which you don’t want to save from the prying eyes then you can easily protect them using this software.

CONS of Secure Notepad :

There is no real negative of Secure Notepad however, consider this situation where you saved an important text and chose the key file method to encrypt it and then your computer was hit by a virus which changed the content of the key file!

Software Version & Summary :

Version : 0.1
Licence : Free
Limitations : None
Homepage : exLibertine
OS Required : Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista

Overall Review & Views :

I really don’t see any huge benefit of this utility. There are various other ways through which you can encrypt file. So there is no real use of this utility but in case you want to use it for small stuff then this utility has no harm as well.

15 Responses so far

  1. Vaibhav September 21, 2007 1:13 pm

    It seems to be a new utility, nobody uses the old styled notepad any more, but the only benefit can be seen in creating the batch files, where we dont want our code to be leaked.

  2. Madhur Kapoor September 21, 2007 3:29 pm

    I am downloading this right now . The features look good .

  3. rahul September 21, 2007 7:25 pm

    I think pass phrase is better way ,thanks really handy to secure chamber of secrets :P

  4. ReviewSaurus September 22, 2007 6:47 am

    @ Vaibhav : It can’t be used to create the batch files. The reason, it encrypts the text only in *.etxt format and not any other format :(

  5. ReviewSaurus September 22, 2007 6:48 am

    @ Madhur : well, basic features but yes as I said that it can be useful in some ways and situations.

  6. ReviewSaurus September 22, 2007 6:49 am

    @ Rahul : Even I feel that pass phrase is better option, only if you have bad memory then god help you :) Well, as far as Chamber of secrets is concerned then I wonder what’s better than your own mind..if its that big secret :P

  7. Thilak September 23, 2007 8:39 am

    I use Steganos Locknote (https://www.steganos.com/products/home-office/locknote/overview/), It’s simple, light and portable!

  8. ReviewSaurus September 23, 2007 12:44 pm

    Hey thanks thilak for dropping by and leaving the comment and telling me about this cool utility!

  9. Thilak September 23, 2007 3:53 pm

    @ReviewSaurus: Any time dude. I often keep a close eye on this blog, but I comment only rarely!

  10. Nirmal September 27, 2007 4:21 am

    I feel these are just additional features for a notepad, not much of use to common users.

  11. ReviewSaurus September 27, 2007 6:43 am

    @ Nirmal : As I said that it’s OK but only for people specifically looking for these kind of features.

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  13. motodrug January 8, 2008 8:57 am

    Secure Notepad is very nice utility!
    BTW, version 1.1 has been released recently.

  14. ReviewSaurus January 11, 2008 8:18 am

    @ motodrug : Thanks for keeping us updated and taking time to leave the comment :)

  15. exLibertine January 11, 2008 10:41 am

    Hello everyone!
    Nice to see that people are talking about my artifact. ;)
    If you have any sensible ideas how can I improve the tool, please send your feedbacks to my e-mail: info@exlibertine.com

    Thank you in advance,
    exLibertine.

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