• Portable Text Encryption โ€” Your super-secret decoder ring

    FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT

    Deanna McElveen

    By Deanna McElveen

    Ever send an important and sensitive email to the wrong person? Wouldn’t it be great if the reply you got back was “Why did you send me gibberish?” instead of “Bob makes HOW MUCH!?”

    U.S. developer Dana Booth has created an easy-to-use tool to encrypt text before pasting it into an email, chat message, or anywhere else. Portable Text Encryption uses AES, DES, Blowfish, and RC4 symmetric encryption ciphers to make sure that if the recipient of your message doesn’t have the password you provide (tell them verbally โ€” not in an email), they aren’t gonna be reading anything but gibberish.

    Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.31.0, 2022-08-01).