Download (Semi)Secure Note Reader: (Semi)Secure Note Reader V.0.01

Often it's the case where we, as computer users, create different passwords for various different web-sevices, and store them in text files somewhere on our hard drives. Really, we're not concerned so much about "hackers" breaking into our computers and trying to find out all of our secrets; we'd just like to have some way of encrypting the data lightly so that it isn't as easy to access as simply opening it up with notepad.

At least, that's how I felt, so I created this very simple little app that uses an 8-byte key to perform 64-bit encryption on simple text. I know, I know, it's not industrial strength encryption. But honestly, to me it doesn't matter. a malicious user would have to brute force the 8-byte key to the tune of 8^50 combinations (or thereabouts). They'd certainly need a computer application to do it. It's obviously possible, but like I said, this is meant to be light security, which means not worrying about someone brute forcing 8^50 combinations just to see some random file. Anything really important I'd encrypt using a robust application like PGP.

All that being said, it's very simple to use; just open it up, type in your 8-byte key (eight alpha-numeric characters) and open the encrypted file. It decrypts on-the-fly and shows you the plain text. Then when you save, it saves encrypted. The free version of PGP, although very powerful, will decrypt the file to another file that you have to open. Then you have to delete it when you're done. after doing that a few times and being lazy and leaving the decrypted files on my hard drive anyway, I decided to write this little app.

You can use (Semi)Secure Note Reader but please heed this warning:

Please do NOT consider this application for very important, life or death, types of information. Consider downloading the free version of PGP from the website above and using that instead.

(Semi)Secure Note Reader opening up an encrypted file to view or edit.

Notepad opening up the same file.