CryptoTE - Main Page

Summary

CryptoTE is a text editor with integrated strong cryptography. It is based on the popular Scintilla widget and automatically stores text data in secure encrypted container files. Compared to other "password keeper" programs, CryptoTE does not force any structure upon your data: it works with plain ASCII text and does not require you to fill in grids, key-value attributes, descriptions etc. Encryption is transparently performed using the highly-secure Serpent cipher. The editing interface is thoroughly optimized for speed and ease of use. Multiple subfiles, Quick-Find and a two-click random password generator make daily use very convenient.

Features

• User-friendly Scintilla text editing widget, the same as used by Notepad++.
• Edits secure private container files holding multiple text or binary files.
• Highly-secure Serpent (256 keybits) encryption of sensitive data.
• Transparent compression using zlib or bzip2 to reduce container size.
• Multiple user passwords can be specified to access a container.
• Fast user-interface: Quick-Find and Quick-Goto bars like Firefox's find. I use the program myself almost every day.
• Auto-Close the container after a user-defined period of inactivity.
• Built-in password generator to insert new passwords in the text.
• Automatically keeps the last n backup versions of the container file.
• Portable, self-sufficient executable files for Windows and Linux available, very useful for USB sticks.
• Sleek wxAui tabbed interface from the newest wxWidgets version.
• Also usable from the Unix/Linux command line on a text console e.g. via ssh.
• Modularized and well-tested container processing library.
• Translated into German (volunteers for more languages wanted).

Downloads

CryptoTE 0.5.390 (current) released 2009-08-02
Binaries:	Windows 2000/NT/XP/Vista/7 (Unicode Build) Installer for Desktops CryptoTE-0.5.390-Win32.exe (2.1 MB)
	Windows 95/98/Me (ANSI Build) Installer for Desktops CryptoTE-0.5.390-Win32-Ansi.exe (2.1 MB)	Stand-Alone Win32 and Linux Executables for USB-Sticks CryptoTE-0.5.390-Standalones.zip (8.3 MB)
	Binaries packages for the Linux distributions above are available in the idlebox Repository. Refer to the individual installation instructions of your distribution (click the icon). If your Linux distribution is not listed, it may be based on one of the above. Otherwise fall back to compiling the source tarball below.
Source code:	Download cryptote-0.5.390.tar.bz2 (1.7 MB) The source code is released under the GNU General Public License v2 (GPL). Some parts of the source tarball is copyright of different authors. All sources and packages are available in the Subversion repository at http://idlebox.net/2009/cryptote/svn/.

FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

Answers to commonly asked high-level questions are published on an extra FAQ page. Please consult it and the documentation before writing me or posting a bug.

Documentation

Questions about cryptography and how it is used in CryptoTE are answered in the online help documentation, which is also included in CryptoTE and is available as PDF for printing. The documentation contains a short discussion about encryption, passwords and how you can protect for data. Advice on choosing a good password is also given. A much more technical discussion of CryptoTE's features such as the cryptography cipher is also given in the help document.

The thoroughly technical container file format v1.0 specification is also available for review by interested fellow developers.

Reporting Bugs

Please report bugs, errors or feature requests via Bugzilla. Prior to filing a new bug, first consult the list of all reported or fixed bugs for version 0.5.390.

Screencast

A tutorial screencast showing how CryptoTE looks and how basic editing works is available for viewing online.

Screenshots

More screenshots are available on the extra screenshot page.