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Submitted URL: http://www.protectedtext.com/
Effective URL: https://www.protectedtext.com/
Submission: On September 24 via api from US — Scanned from CA
Effective URL: https://www.protectedtext.com/
Submission: On September 24 via api from US — Scanned from CA
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<p class="remove-bottom"> <span class="softColor">Go to</span> protectedText.com<span class="monospace-text">/</span>
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<button class="remove-bottom ui-button ui-widget ui-state-default ui-corner-all ui-button-text-only" id="button-go" role="button" aria-disabled="false"><span class="ui-button-text">Go</span></button> <span class="softColor">(or write directly in
the address bar)</span>
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* The safest site on the web for storing your text!
* Enter any URL, e.g. protectedText.com/anything
You find it - it's yours!
* Encrypt all your notes, access anywhere.
* Simple. Fast. Free. No ads. Secure - don't trust us, check the code yourself.
Go to protectedText.com/ Go (or write directly in the address bar)
* ProtectedText is an free online notepad with password, where you can securely
save your notes on the web.
It's a secure notepad with password, for all your notes, ideas, to-do lists,
scripts, etc. You can store notes online at
ProtectedText.com/ANY_SITE_YOU_TYPE and access from any web browser. It's
free and also without ads and tracking, and you don't even have to register
or have any kind of account. Store your notes anonymously and encrypted in
this simple and secure free online notepad. You can also use our Android app
to access your notes conveniently from your Android device.
* The most popular online notepad that utilizes Trustless Security.
"Trustless Security is an ultimate security approach, where users don't have
to trust those who are providing the service."
WHY IS IT SAFE?
* Your password isn't sent to our server - we can't decrypt your text even if
we wanted to. Only encrypted text is sent over the Internet.
* No cookies, no sessions, no registration, no users tracking. We can't
identify you at all. We can't know when the same user visits two different
sites.
* No logging in or out, just close the browser tab and you're safe.
* No ads - we hate ads because they can track you, and they're distracting.
* You don't have to trust anyone or agree on anything - check the code
yourself. All our code is well written and full of comments so that you can
understand it in details - start by looking at main.js, and check
communication with our servers.
* If someone wants your text, he'll need your password, but he'll have to find
your site first.
OVERWRITE PROTECTION
* You can use the same sub-site from multiple browsers/devices at the same
time, without having to worry about ever losing any changes.
FAQ:
1. Q: I've forgotten my password, what can I do?
A: Passwords are never sent to our servers. We only store encrypted text -
which is useless data once a password is lost. Also, we don't know who this
text belongs to.
2. Q: Please explain 'Trustless Security'.
A: Your password never leaves your device. We only store encrypted content.
You don't have to trust us, or anyone else with your password, since only
you know it and only you can decrypt your notes. It's like if you're writing
a diary with special characters that only you understand. It doesn't matter
where you keep this diary, since only you can understand the text that's
inside.
3. Q: How can I make encrypted backup of my notes?
A: It's simple: Open your site with Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox and
save the site before decrypting it (Ctrl + S should work). Make sure to save
the site while 'Password required' dialog is still visible. To open your
encrypted backup, open saved .html file and type in your password.
4. Q: Why is my URL changed from "Mark's notes" to "mark-s-notes"?
A: Some characters aren't allowed in URL addresses, that's why your URL is
redirected to a URL that has some characters replaced with dashes. You can
always type in "Mark's notes" and you'll be redirected to the same URL.
5. Q: Can I make a site public?
A: You can add the password after the URL of your site, like this:
ProtectedText.com/yourSite?yourPassword which will automatically decrypt
yourSite with yourPassword.
Q: What are your long-term plans? How will you react to legal pressure?
A: We'd like to create a file storage and sharing service with a similar
security approach.
In case of legal prosecutions, we can't hurt users because we don't know
anything about them, and we can't decrypt their notes.
Q: Why is this better then Evernote?
A: Evernote is far from secure, and their Privacy Policy says that your
notes may be viewed where necessary 'to comply with our legal obligations,
such as responding to warrants, court orders or other legal process.'
Q: Do I have to use a long password?
A: You don't have to, but it's recommended. The longer the password, the
harder it is to guess it. Note that your text is protected by both the URL
and your password.
Q: Can I use a suspicious internet connection (e.g. Starbucks)?
A: Yes. Your password (or password hashes) are never sent over the network,
and all data that's sent or received is always encrypted. Your data is
decrypted only on your device, and encrypted before it's returned to us.
Q: How can you verify that a password is correct if you don't store it
anywhere and don't send it to server? How do you authenticate the user?
A: The server doesn't know anything about authentication; that's all handled
in your browser. There are no users on ProtectedText.com, just sites.
Passwords are never saved; not even within encrypted text.
Decryption of a page will fail if the password is incorrect, so whoever can
decrypt the page must have used the correct password. The idea is that we
don't have to know the password; we just have to make sure that the password
is correct - and one way to check that is to try decrypting some well-known
text using the provided password. The "well-known" text we're using is the
URL of the current site (which is different, but known, for each site).
Once a user creates the password, we store the encrypted URL, and each time
the password needs to be tested, we just try decrypting the encrypted URL.
If we get the expected URL, we try using the same password for decrypting
the whole site (it's possible -- but very unlikely -- that two different
passwords correctly decrypt the same URL, but using that wrong password for
decrypting everything else will result in gibberish).
Q: How does overwrite protection work?
A: Overwrite protection prevents you from saving any changes if text was
changed in the meantime. (The server stores the hash of the newest content,
and sends the hash to the client together with the content. The client has
to return that same hash when trying to save updated content. The server
compares both the stored and received hashes to determinate whether client
was served with the latest changes.)
Q: How is the title of each tab computed?
A: The title of each tab consists of up to 20 characters from the first
non-empty line of text.
Q: What encryption algorithms are used?
A: ProtectedText.com uses standard AES algorithm for encrypting/decrypting
the content, together with 'salts' and other known good practices to achieve
exceptional security; and SHA512 algorithm for hashing. On top of that, all
data is only provided through SSL.
Q: Is the server code available somewhere? I'd like to host the service
myself.
A: We haven't opened the server code, for now. We'd like to provide perfect
security to everyone, not just tech users. So we've created this approach
where server side is irrelevant - that's the beauty of this service.
Nobody should be forced to trust anyone in order to be secure; that's why
all security is provided from the client side (which users can verify). Even
if you knew the server code, you couldn't confirm whether that code was
running on server, or if it was replaced by something else. In other words:
whenever a server's code is responsible for providing security, you have to
trust whoever runs it.
Q: How long do you keep sites on your servers? Will they ever expire?
A: Sites aren't deleted automatically. We'll keep them until you delete them
yourself.
Q: Is there a length limit?
A: The current maximum length is a bit more then 750 000 chars per page.
Q: Is there some kind of self-destruct mechanism?
A: All that we have are encrypted versions of notes that you store on our
servers, so once you delete your notes, that's it; there is nothing more to
destroy.
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Free online notepad on the web. ProtectedText is a secure notepad with password,
so it's easy to store notes online without having to login.
It's simple and secure free web notepad without ads.
If you have any comments, or suggestions - feel free to email us.
Warrant Canary: ProtectedText has never been served with a warrant that wasn't
cleared or dismissed. ProtectedText never had seizures.
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