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How to securely save notes on your Android phone
#19389619 - 01/08/14 05:45 PM (10 years, 22 days ago) |
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Hi boys (and girls)
I was hoping someone might be able to help me out with this one. From time to time, I need to store sensitive information on my phone like username and passwords that are not easy to remember. At the moment, I use a simple program called ColorNote that enables to to add quick entries and add a password to this too. My worry is I'm not entirely sure how secure this program really is in the event that I was to lose my phone and someone attempted to gain access.
Can anyone recommend another suggestion for an app that I could use in its place? I use TextSecure for text messages which provides encryption for any issues like the one mentioned above. Is there anything similar for note taking? Ideally, I'm looking for something that I can save locally rather than somewhere online like Evernote or whatever else.
Anyway your input would be much appreciated.
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Re: How to securely save notes on your Android phone [Re: gENERIX]
#19390051 - 01/08/14 07:12 PM (10 years, 22 days ago) |
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Gnupg?
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Re: How to securely save notes on your Android phone [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
#19395814 - 01/09/14 08:24 PM (10 years, 21 days ago) |
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Downloading as we speak. Thanks man!
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Re: How to securely save notes on your Android phone [Re: gENERIX]
#19411114 - 01/13/14 03:29 AM (10 years, 18 days ago) |
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Make sure to log ALL your illegal activity so that it is easy to prosecute you when your phone and key is seized.
-FF
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Re: How to securely save notes on your Android phone [Re: fastfred]
#19440278 - 01/18/14 11:17 PM (10 years, 12 days ago) |
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You can use a PGP application to encrypt your text for when you send it. But if you want to store notes safely, I recommend using an application that stores them by encrypting them, and using a program like SSE to encrypt the text.
But I really don't recommend you store this kind of stuff on an Android.
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Re: How to securely save notes on your Android phone [Re: Anonymous #1]
#19441167 - 01/19/14 04:56 AM (10 years, 12 days ago) |
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And where is your key stored?
Storing the encrypted data and key together doesn't work out to be a secure system.
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Re: How to securely save notes on your Android phone [Re: fastfred]
#19443776 - 01/19/14 05:49 PM (10 years, 11 days ago) |
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I'm all for GnuPGP but like Mr.Anonymous has gladly pointed out, I don't intend on sending any encrypted messages. All I'm really looking for is a particular app that is good for saving personal notes whenever necessary.
As it stands ColorNote which I'm currently using might be useful but if I was ever to lose my phone, I can't imagine it would be too hard to gain access to any information held within these notes. Even if a masterkey is used to prevent anyone from gaining access.
Is there not a single app that encrypts messages locally?
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Re: How to securely save notes on your Android phone [Re: gENERIX]
#19453627 - 01/21/14 04:21 PM (10 years, 9 days ago) |
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PasswdSafe is a open source sourceforge Android app ported from the PC check it out works very well
Added link: http://passwdsafe.sourceforge.net/wp/
Edited by hushmush (01/21/14 04:23 PM)
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Re: How to securely save notes on your Android phone [Re: gENERIX]
#19457605 - 01/22/14 01:25 PM (10 years, 8 days ago) |
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Quote:
gENERIX said: I'm all for GnuPGP but like Mr.Anonymous has gladly pointed out, I don't intend on sending any encrypted messages.
GPG is not just for sending encrypted messages, it also works well to encrypt local files. You can use gpg -c to do conventional encryption rather than public key encryption. If you do this, remember that the security of the encryption is largely determined by the length of the key.
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