Saferoom
Saferoom encrypts your notes and attachments before they are uploaded to Evernote or OneNote cloud. Thus your notes become encrypted and protected against any data leaks.
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What is Saferoom?
To protect your data Saferoom uses the AES-256 encryption algorithm with a key length of 256-bit. Currently, it is the most secure algorithm in the world which is used for military-grade confidential documents.
Saferoom is a completely client-based application. This means that Saferoom operates only inside the device where it has been installed. Data is encrypted directly inside the device and only leaves the device in an encrypted format. Further, in order to give our users true zero-knowledge encryption, Saferoom keeps the password inside the device. It means that the password cannot be restored. Hence, this ensures that you are in absolute control of your data.
Because Saferoom encrypts data directly inside the device, any information that is pushed to cloud services stays in an encrypted format. It means that even if a cloud server is breached and information is stolen, your data will remain in an encrypted format.
Our target is to create software that is seamlessly integrated into existing platforms and adds a 'piggy-back' encryption functionality. We want our users to keep their own flow of things, to keep their processes and to receive an option to encrypt data they want. Hence, our aim is to build Saferoom in a simple form.
Saferoom is a completely client-based application. This means that Saferoom operates only inside the device where it has been installed. Data is encrypted directly inside the device and only leaves the device in an encrypted format. Further, in order to give our users true zero-knowledge encryption, Saferoom keeps the password inside the device. It means that the password cannot be restored. Hence, this ensures that you are in absolute control of your data.
Because Saferoom encrypts data directly inside the device, any information that is pushed to cloud services stays in an encrypted format. It means that even if a cloud server is breached and information is stolen, your data will remain in an encrypted format.
Our target is to create software that is seamlessly integrated into existing platforms and adds a 'piggy-back' encryption functionality. We want our users to keep their own flow of things, to keep their processes and to receive an option to encrypt data they want. Hence, our aim is to build Saferoom in a simple form.
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JohnFastman If you have to violate your privacy by using Evernote, at least know you can use Saferoom to encrypt notes in Evernote so that Evernote employees, hackers and feds can't read their content. Or change to Turtl. Or Tagspaces.
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Saferoom was added to AlternativeTo by JohnFastman on Jan 7, 2017 and this page was last updated Sep 10, 2019.
Saferoom is an app that encrypts your Evernote or OneNote content. This is an excellent idea, because by default user data rests on Evernote and OneNote servers in a way that's easily readable. This means that hackers who gain access to your data on these services (and others), rogue employees, or intelligence agencies/feds, can all access your data and analyze or exploit it.
Adding encryption solves this problem: the data is encrypted on your device with a password only you have (again, not the way Evernote, OneNote operate). This encrypted data is sent to the service's servers, where it's unreadable to everyone. So even if hackers gained entry, the NSA forced Evernote/OneNote to give your data up (happens), or a rogue employee decided to exploit it (it's a constant problem), it wouldn't matter: your data would look like nonsense to anyone but the password holder (you). But you can sync it (download it to another device), decrypt it and use it. This model is called end-to-end encryption or, sometimes, a "zero-knowledge" model. The Snowden revelations, Evernote security breaches (see example above) and Evernote's recently aborted privacy policy revision has led for customers to demand this kind of encryption model (follow the same link). Evernote and OneNote are unlikely ever to provide it, largely for commercial reasons. That's why Saferoom exists.
The disadvantage is that encrypted data, because it looks like noise, isn't searchable for meaningful content.
For this reason, I recommend you read my more in-depth comments about the problem with Evernote's privacy and security (comments which apply equally to Google Keep, Dropbox and OneNote, amongst others) and select an alternative. In the case of Evernote, the best alternatives I've found so far are Laverna, Turtl and TagSpaces - but each have different features so you'll have to figure out what you need.