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[Tool] top 10 online resources to encrypt and decrypt plain text message

Posted in Tools on March 10th, 2010 by Kent

image Encryption is complicated so it’s nice that someone out there already make some cool apps that can do all these complex work for us. Thanks to Technical Personal for compiling a nice list of web apps that does this dirty work. Very useful and handy when you need it.

1. Crypo – Crypo has a huge collection of online tools like Hash generator, one pass generator, pass phrase generator etc. For encrypting email messages, you can use AER-256+ or other related tool.

2. Encrypt Easy – Encrypt and secure your messages online with Blowfish, which is one of the most secured encryption algorithm. Pretty straight-forward to use.

3. Lock My Stuff – In addition to encryption and decryption of messages, it allows you to store the encrypted text on its server and send the URL.

4. Crypto – A simple text encryption Java based applet with key, Caesar and Pseudo-CES encryption options.

5. Webnet77 Blowfish encryption – An alternative to Encrypt-easy tool with not so attractive user interface but equally efficient online service.

6. Dinofilias – A very simple and easy-to-use online text encryption service.

7. Infoencrypt – It’s a popular message encryption service with a nice UI and detailed explanation on the features and uses of text encryption.

8. EnetPlanet – Another nice encryption service with an option to save the encrypted text to a file or choose an encrypted file and decrypt it.

9. Flexcrypt – quite similar to Infoencrypt.

10. Lockbin – free online email encryption service which was quite popular when it was introduced but had its own share of problems later on. It is still useful to encrypt the message and mail it directly using the form available.

One of the possible uses I can think of is the email. We all know that email is insecure and is very technical to make the message encrypted correctly. With use one of these services we at least can encrypt our emails in a indirect way. Maybe it’s very nice and straightforward but it’s an option you can choose when a confidential communication is required.

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