Maintaining privacy when browsing the Internet or using programs on a day-to-day basis is important. Complications can always arise that can expose our personal data, for example by simply sending a text file. In this article we are going to talk about a free tool which can be very useful for the purpose of improve privacy. We are going to explain how it works to keep communications safe.
Portable Secret, a program to encrypt files
Is about Portable Secret. It is a free and open source tool. With it you can encrypt messages, images or files. What it does is save them as an HTML file. This way you can share them with other people and open them in any browser. To decrypt them you will have to put a password.
The good thing is that the other person you will not have to install anything. He simply has to open that HTML file that you send him and enter the password. You will automatically be able to see the message that you have encrypted or the images that you have converted to that format to maintain privacy. It is easy to use and very useful. All the other person needs is a current browser, such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.
You can send the HTML file by email, share it through a cloud platform or simply save it to a flash drive and give it to someone else to open it. An interesting option to encrypt files and share them. An alternative to other similar programs that also help improve privacy.
Steps to use Portable Secret
To use this tool, the first thing you have to do is go to the project page. At the moment it is that, a project, so it does not have an application as such that you can install. When you enter for the first time you will find something like the image below. Random characters will appear in Salt and IV. In addition, a generic password that you can change at any time.
What you have to do is put a strong and secure key. Once this is done, the next thing is to select the type of message you want to encrypt. For example if it is text or an image. If you check Message, a box will be displayed to put the text you want to encrypt. Just write or copy whatever you want. If it is an image, you select it and load it.
When you have everything ready, you just have to hit Generate Secret and the file will be created. You will automatically see a link to download the HTML file with the encrypted content. Subsequently, what you have to do is send that file that you have generated to the other person.
When opening that HTML file, the browser will automatically ask for the password. As you can see, clues appear because we have left the key that came generic. You can put the password you want, remove those clues, etc. It is all very intuitive and easy to use.
As you can see, you can easily encrypt texts and images thanks to Portable Secret. You don’t even need to install a program, since it works through the browser both when it comes to encrypting and reading the message.
