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		<title>By: miho</title>
		<link>http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/five-online-encryption-tools-to-protect-your-privacy/#comment-369356</link>
		<dc:creator>miho</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Free Encrypt and Decrypt text and files online, using MultiBit encryption.
http://crypo.com</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Free Encrypt and Decrypt text and files online, using MultiBit encryption.<br />
<a href="http://crypo.com" rel="nofollow">http://crypo.com</a></p>
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		<title>By: Bakz</title>
		<link>http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/five-online-encryption-tools-to-protect-your-privacy/#comment-357147</link>
		<dc:creator>Bakz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Check out Flexcrypt, encryption of email, msn and icq. And Flexcrypt folder, encryption of files and folders.

AES 256 bit + password encryption, windows.

http://www.flexcrypt.com</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Check out Flexcrypt, encryption of email, msn and icq. And Flexcrypt folder, encryption of files and folders.</p>
<p>AES 256 bit + password encryption, windows.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flexcrypt.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.flexcrypt.com</a></p>
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		<title>By: W00p</title>
		<link>http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/five-online-encryption-tools-to-protect-your-privacy/#comment-349413</link>
		<dc:creator>W00p</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>you should definitely add https://privnote.com/ to the list.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>you should definitely add <a href="https://privnote.com/" rel="nofollow">https://privnote.com/</a> to the list.</p>
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		<title>By: Tina</title>
		<link>http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/five-online-encryption-tools-to-protect-your-privacy/#comment-346880</link>
		<dc:creator>Tina</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>All true.

Can you decrypt this?

&lt;!-- a.)1&#124;+ZHDb p&amp;_ vj^ -k*^ p]H@ Ex2&#124;bL }k5FBA -7Z^e PS uU&gt;bjUF vH&quot; MA#P% --&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All true.</p>
<p>Can you decrypt this?</p>
<p><!-- a.)1|+ZHDb p&#038;_ vj^ -k*^ p]H@ Ex2|bL }k5FBA -7Z^e PS uU>bjUF vH&#8221; MA#P% &#8211;></p>
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		<title>By: bob</title>
		<link>http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/five-online-encryption-tools-to-protect-your-privacy/#comment-346868</link>
		<dc:creator>bob</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I wholeheartedly agree with you Mackenzie, and also would like to bring up the point that if the aim of these websites are to stop people intercepting and gaining your data, why do they allow it to happen on the way to that website. Only File Encryptor (however, you did not link to the secure version) and Lockbin provide HTTPS so the other websites leave you open to attack!

Think about it this way, you send your precious secret text to the website, in plain text ( which anyone can intercept and read), then it is &#039;encrypted&#039; and sent back to you in a safe format to then communicate safely. But there is no point in that, because you sent it out for anyone to see (including the website, which you can&#039;t trust at all anyway!*), all they need is some determination - and some cooperation from your ISP can help - to succeed.

You would definitely be better off using some program on your own computer (such as PGP, gpg - even a few of the programs MakeUseOf has reviewed) where nothing has to be sent out through networks you can&#039;t trust (i.e. the internet)! Seriously guys, don&#039;t trust &#039;The Cloud&#039;!

* For all you know they might be (and probably will be forced to) log all the text/data/files you send to them, along with your IP, so it can always be traced back to you!). They could even be owned by the people involved with spying, to try and catch people out!**

** Yes, sorry, I know am paranoid, but I think that paranoia is a healthy attitude to take toward computer security!

- Bob Hodgkins</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wholeheartedly agree with you Mackenzie, and also would like to bring up the point that if the aim of these websites are to stop people intercepting and gaining your data, why do they allow it to happen on the way to that website. Only File Encryptor (however, you did not link to the secure version) and Lockbin provide HTTPS so the other websites leave you open to attack!</p>
<p>Think about it this way, you send your precious secret text to the website, in plain text ( which anyone can intercept and read), then it is &#8216;encrypted&#8217; and sent back to you in a safe format to then communicate safely. But there is no point in that, because you sent it out for anyone to see (including the website, which you can&#8217;t trust at all anyway!*), all they need is some determination &#8211; and some cooperation from your ISP can help &#8211; to succeed.</p>
<p>You would definitely be better off using some program on your own computer (such as PGP, gpg &#8211; even a few of the programs MakeUseOf has reviewed) where nothing has to be sent out through networks you can&#8217;t trust (i.e. the internet)! Seriously guys, don&#8217;t trust &#8216;The Cloud&#8217;!</p>
<p>* For all you know they might be (and probably will be forced to) log all the text/data/files you send to them, along with your IP, so it can always be traced back to you!). They could even be owned by the people involved with spying, to try and catch people out!**</p>
<p>** Yes, sorry, I know am paranoid, but I think that paranoia is a healthy attitude to take toward computer security!</p>
<p>- Bob Hodgkins</p>
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		<title>By: DanGTD</title>
		<link>http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/five-online-encryption-tools-to-protect-your-privacy/#comment-346791</link>
		<dc:creator>DanGTD</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>TrueCrypt is good too, and it&#039;s for both Windows and Linux.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>TrueCrypt is good too, and it&#8217;s for both Windows and Linux.</p>
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		<title>By: Transcontinental</title>
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		<dc:creator>Transcontinental</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Very nice. Encodor and InfoEncrypt in particular. Concerning the password -- which should never be included with the encrypted message, of course -- what I suggest is that your correspondent and yourself have available the exact same copy of a given book which is known only by both of you to be the &quot;reference&quot; book. With the message you would choose as the password the x first letters of the y paragraph of the z page, for instance
 [Encrypted message]
Ref : x-y-z

Now with that, especially if both have more than one book available, things become nicely tough!

EDIT : Be sure the book  is not a unique edition, and remains available elsewhere, because if the recipient ever looses the book, he should be able to get a new copy in town. That could make a nice thriller, very Hitchcock, where the man runs all over town to but another copy, finds out it&#039;s not the same edition, has to fly to NY to find it, 15 hrs left, will he make it .... Wow!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very nice. Encodor and InfoEncrypt in particular. Concerning the password &#8212; which should never be included with the encrypted message, of course &#8212; what I suggest is that your correspondent and yourself have available the exact same copy of a given book which is known only by both of you to be the &#8220;reference&#8221; book. With the message you would choose as the password the x first letters of the y paragraph of the z page, for instance<br />
 [Encrypted message]<br />
Ref : x-y-z</p>
<p>Now with that, especially if both have more than one book available, things become nicely tough!</p>
<p>EDIT : Be sure the book  is not a unique edition, and remains available elsewhere, because if the recipient ever looses the book, he should be able to get a new copy in town. That could make a nice thriller, very Hitchcock, where the man runs all over town to but another copy, finds out it&#8217;s not the same edition, has to fly to NY to find it, 15 hrs left, will he make it &#8230;. Wow!</p>
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		<title>By: Paula Dunne</title>
		<link>http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/five-online-encryption-tools-to-protect-your-privacy/#comment-346753</link>
		<dc:creator>Paula Dunne</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>By FAR the easiest and most secure way to encrypt email to one or more recipients is Voltage. You don&#039;t have to share a secret word, a private key, know anything at all about encryption, and the company is solid. Try it for yourself--don&#039;t take my word for it! You can get it here: www.voltage.com/vsn  (also file encryption)

Enjoy!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By FAR the easiest and most secure way to encrypt email to one or more recipients is Voltage. You don&#8217;t have to share a secret word, a private key, know anything at all about encryption, and the company is solid. Try it for yourself&#8211;don&#8217;t take my word for it! You can get it here: <a href="http://www.voltage.com/vsn" rel="nofollow">http://www.voltage.com/vsn</a>  (also file encryption)</p>
<p>Enjoy!</p>
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		<title>By: Mackenzie</title>
		<link>http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/five-online-encryption-tools-to-protect-your-privacy/#comment-346744</link>
		<dc:creator>Mackenzie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If nothing is revealed about the encryption implementation, how can we trust it?  For all we know, it&#039;s a Caesar Cypher or simple polyalphabetic encryption.  It&#039;s obviously synchronous, since only a password is needed.  That right there makes it less secure than using PGP directly on your computer before uploading, since with asynchronous encryption the snoop would need to have the other key *and* guess your password.  With this synchronous method, you&#039;re trusting to someone&#039;s inability to guess the password.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If nothing is revealed about the encryption implementation, how can we trust it?  For all we know, it&#8217;s a Caesar Cypher or simple polyalphabetic encryption.  It&#8217;s obviously synchronous, since only a password is needed.  That right there makes it less secure than using PGP directly on your computer before uploading, since with asynchronous encryption the snoop would need to have the other key *and* guess your password.  With this synchronous method, you&#8217;re trusting to someone&#8217;s inability to guess the password.</p>
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