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Comment by larrysalibra | Hacker News Reader

It will be interesting to see how password/touch id lock for Notes works. Will they be end-to-end encrypted? Will they be searchable? Or is this simply a UI feature to protect against someone looking over your shoulder?

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One thing I found rather amusing was the fact that there are visible passwords in the picture although it hasn't been unlocked. Hopefully it's at the very least blurred before you input your password.

The popup text says "use your fingerprint or notes password to protect this note" though.

So to my reading it's showing passwords which are about to be protected, not something that already has been locked.

Reading the text on the screen this appears to be in the action of 'encrypting'. i.e. they just hit a button to say 'hide this data behind my fingerprint' and you just have to authenticate and then it will be encrypted. A poor choice though perhaps. I think they wanted to demonstrate the type of data you would want to store.

Apple says it is encrypted on the server, but it's not clear if it is end-to-end encrypted with the keys staying on your devices. Likely the keys are encrypted with your iCloud password for multi-device use.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

agreed very curious to know whether this means apple does not have access. I have a passcode on my phone/computer/icloud so casual snooping is not really an issue (and i don't hand my phone to people to play with or share a computer) so that would really be the only benefit to someone like me

Yeah, and will it work on OSX, too?

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