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Is this open source? The JavaScript that encrypts the file (sjcl.js) is minified and I don't feel like spending hours trying to figure out what it does. Is this a JavaScript library that was reused from somewhere?

It's SJCL, a pretty popular JS crypto library.

https://crypto.stanford.edu/sjcl/

Nice! Thanks for this.

Having a file encrpyt to an HTML file is pretty interesting, something I've never considered before. Very portable.

I really like the portability and accessibility of HTML files, especially as very thin local apps.

Here is one of my projects playing with that concept: https://github.com/srpeck/markdowned

Is it me or is the page being served over an unencrypted channel a gaping security hole?

I presume it encrypts on the client side, but whats to stop a man in the middle swapping the javascript so it sends the attacker your files?

https://zipit.io/

They should disable the http version.

Yes thank you, I should have taken care of this sooner.

It now force redirects, hats off to CloudFlare for being free SSL provider.

Encryption password entry in the clear in a dialog!

That should at least be <input type="password">

I think it is on purpose, as you are only asked to type it once. Type the wrong thing, and no way to decrypt the file.

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