[encryption] Looking for distributed encrypted Notepad

[HippoMan]

There are a number of encrypted Notepad apps available for Android. However, I'm looking for such an app with the following specific features:

1. An associated desktop app that runs under Linux which uses the same encrytion mechanism.

2. The ability to share the already-encrypted notes over the net with this associated desktop app, as well as with instances of the same Android app running on different Android devices of mine.

In other words, I'd like to be able to enter encrypted notes on, say, my Android phone and then to "share" them so that the same encrypted notes are visible on a desktop app running under Linux, or under the same Android app on a different device.

The notes should be sent over the net in encrypted form. I don't want plaintext to ever go over the net.

I know that I can make something like this happen with several manual steps. However, I'm wondering if anyone has written an app that already has all these features.

Thanks in advance.

 

[psionandy]

Lastpass... was written mainly to solve this problem for password management but you can also use it for secure notes

https://helpdesk.lastpass.com/secure-notes/

 

[HippoMan]

Thank you very much. It looks like LastPass uses cloud storage. I forgot to mention in my original message that I don't want to rely on anyone else's cloud servers.

Ideally, I'd like to be able to use some sort of direct TCP-IP connection between my devices.

Or if that's not possible and a cloud is absolutely necessary, I'd like to use OwnCloud, because I have already set up a personal OwnCloud service on a server that I control and which is not shared with anyone else.

I'm guessing that what I want doesn't currently exist "out of the box" with any existing apps. But perhaps? ... maybe? ...

Hope springs eternal.

 

[psionandy]

Except there isn't anything 'useful' stored on the cloud at all.. just a binary blob that is completely useless to anyone else, as all the encryption/decryption is done at the local ends... and in case they suddenly go out of business.. you can download a copy of the vault locally so you're not caught that way.

Here's an independent (incredibly detailed) breakdown of how they work.... https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-256.htm (audio available at the top of the link... it really is a TNO (Trust No One) solution

 

[fdbryant3]

Google is your friend. Lots of results - like Encrypted Notepad.

 

[HippoMan]

Hi, fdbryant3. You should have read my initial message in full before copying-and-pasting your "Google is your friend" message.

I am looking for more than just an encrypted notepad. I would not have posted here if I hadn't already Googled (and Binged, and Duck-Duck-Went, etc.) to try to find what I was looking for, without success.

Aside from the LastPass suggestion which now looks more promising to me after psionandy's latest explantion (thank you, psionandy!), there doesn't seem to be anything else out there which does what I want.

 

[HippoMan]

Update: I have tried LastPass, and it does most of what I want. Thank you again, psionandy!