Crypto Notepad

[smaragdus]

Synopsis

Notepad-like simple text editor for Windows, where files are saved and loaded encrypted with AES algorithms.

Features

• Fully customizable editor. Able to customize the colors and fonts
• Able to customize different parameters of the encryption (hash algorithm, key size, password iterations, salt)
• Included all the features of the default Windows Notepad
• Association with the application extension
• Easily search through the content

Links
Project Page - https://github.com/Sigmanor/Crypto-Notepad
Download Page - https://github.com/Sigmanor/Crypto-Notepad/releases
Change Log - https://github.com/Sigmanor/Crypto-Note ... ease-Notes
Wiki Page - https://github.com/Sigmanor/Crypto-Notepad/wiki
Documentation - https://github.com/Sigmanor/Crypto-Note ... -%28ENG%29
TODO - https://github.com/Sigmanor/Crypto-Notepad/wiki/TODO
Publisher at GitHub - https://github.com/Sigmanor
Publisher - http://sigmanor.pp.ua/
Crypto Notepad at Softpedia - http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-too ... epad.shtml

Downloads
Direct Download Link for Crypto Notepad version 1.0.0.

Images

Crypto Notepad - first run:



Crypto Notepad - enter the encryption key:



Crypto Notepad - main window:



Crypto Notepad - settings - fonts and colors:



Crypto Notepad - settings - encrypt/decrypt:



Crypto Notepad - settings - application:



Portability
Crypto Notepad is portable and stealth by design- settings are saved in Crypto Notepad.settings file inside program folder.

Instructions

• Download the archive (Crypto.Notepad.zip).
• Extract the archive to a folder of your choice.
• Run the executable (Crypto Notepad.exe).

Requirements
Crypto Notepad runs on Windows Vista SP2 and higher and requires .NET Framework 4.5.

License
Crypto Notepad is licensed under the MIT License.

Note
On first run Crypto Notepad offers to "Get The Salt from mac address".
Crypto Notepad uses its own file format (CNP) for saving the encrypted text.
Crypto Notepad supports Unicode.
Currently (as of version 1.0.0) Crypto Notepad does not detect URLs and mailto: links and does not support drag&drop.
Crypto Notepad uses about 28 MB of RAM on my Windows 8 x64 system.

Details
File details for Crypto Notepad version 1.0.0:
Name: Crypto.Notepad.zip
File Size: 398192 Byte(s) (388.86 KB)
Modified Date: 2016-01-28 18:50
MD5: f26b394eb00810d3e045bc103ea8f3be
SHA1: cdc159b0cfd00a11301ae002476144e376e0b952
SHA256: 5c497fdaaf679402ce6de725ea38e213228eec3a45d2a0120530da0e82f46593
SHA512: f2dcab52bf05a197cf44ba3006b0dc09774539c41dc56f0c4314aac182bfd3e4a497cf783d335e62aa2a6111b9e86e1ed920f580b8b0d33ef4e5a5eb660f57af
CRC32: 9e8c6901
VirusTotal analysis - Detection ratio: 0 / 55

[smaragdus]

I added Crypto Notepad to the database.

[Ennovy]

Thanks for the very detailed information and voted

[smaragdus]

@Ennovy
Thank you for your vote!

I edited Requirements, billon is right and Crypto Notepad really needs .NET Framework 4.0 to be installed in order to run.

Edit
I edited Requirements once again after I got reply from the developer, who is very responsive on feature requests (GPG support - thanks to webfork!, Drag&Drop support, URL and mailto: detection).

[smaragdus]

The developer of Crypto Notepad, Alexander is very helpful and has already implemented my two feature requests- support for drag&drop and support for URL and mailto: links detection:

[smaragdus]

Screens of Crypto Notepad version 1.3.0:

Crypto Notepad version 1.3.0 - program (animated image):



Crypto Notepad version 1.3.0 - settings (animated image):



Crypto Notepad version 1.3.0 - about (static image):



The developer- Sigmanor is putting much effort in debugging and improving the program. By the way I have not seen such website.

[Veit]

That's a very neat project. What's your end goal for Crypto Notepad, Smaragdus? Who's your target audience?

[smaragdus]

@Veit
I am not the developer of the program, I just reviewed it in the forum. If you have questions you can contact the developer of Crypto Notepad.

[webfork]

That's a very neat project. What's your end goal for Crypto Notepad, Smaragdus? Who's your target audience?

My guess is the developer was trying to create a simple notepad program, but with security enabled. Simple security is (usually) better security.

[webfork]

Last updated back in Sept to v1.7.3.

Changelog: https://github.com/Crypto-Notepad/Crypt ... 2022-09-09

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Feature notes:

Pure text file format

Something I didn't check before is that the program generates fully plain text files. Meaning the encrypted note itself can be opened in any standard text editor, sent via email, or saved to a forum like this one. Here's for example is a file with the password "test":

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YnfdFIRSZXLtQI9RXew8cgAMgazpyLQgm941DdI3kqU+eYjBmnr6P9PDeJpReL7TDax1VQ2gIk54Fm8TtXZJ/kZd9q0sUnS9EfUMYX3FphHEAJRuL6/MMzg4h/OEShamhbE=

This format takes up a little more space but is much more versatile.

Secure clipboard manager

Under Tools - Use as a Paste board, you can check a box that will make the program behave as a secure record of all clipboard items. I don't think I've seen a clipboard manager with that function.