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[drhugh]

I read somewhere that right clicking on text in a Note pops up a menu offering encryption.

1. How do you right click on selected text on an iPad?

2. right clicking on text on my note when viewed on my Mac (10.5.8) when logged onto the Evernote site produces no such option

[Metrodon]

I'm pretty sure it's not supported on the iPad or web clients at the moment.

[RAAlfieri]

You can decrypt encrypted text; however, you are unable to edit and re-encrypt. This is a huge functional gap. I'd prefer to see an option to encrypt the entire body of a note rather than the cumbersome "highlight and encrypt."

[ElTigreBlanco]

If someone from Evernote reads this, can you tell us if Evernote plans to implement encryption on iOs? I am uncomfortable having some data unencrypted. Thanks

[Phil Dean]

@EITigreBlanco - you can encrypt your data on either the Mac or Windows client. Once your data is encrypted and you view the note on your IOS device you will not be able to view the data you encrypted until you decrypt it so we do have this function already in the IOS client. The only feature we currently do not have is the ability to encrypt or edit your data on an IOS device this has to be done via our Mac or Windows client

[richiemap]

Phil, is that something that will be incorporated in future iPad/iOS versions (the ability to encrypt from a mobile device - not only from computer)? Is it omitted for security reasons?
Thanks

[Metrodon]

Evernote don't often disclose their roadmap/upcoming functionality.

[richiemap]

Then I guess we mere mortals will wait patiently and hope for the best!

[Tom Master Scheck Scheck]

I would use Evernote much more if I could encrypt my information, especially that entered via my iPhone.

I trust this weekends intrusion into Evernote will escalate the priority of this functionality.

 

[richiemap]

Good point - I hope you're right.

[Brad G.]

This is the one thing that has completley held me back from embracing Evernote. I can't encrypt notes on my iPhone. It is of little use to me like this!!!

[70834]

I too vote for this feature for iOS devices!

[Polgs]

Another vote for iPad encryption from me. If I can decrypt on an iPad, then there is no technical reason why I couldn't encrypt. Does Evernote have a hidden agenda on what and where we are allowed to encrypt?

[Metrodon]

I'm not sure how you know that there is no technical reason, unless of course you have access to the Evernote code. Despite the conspiracy theories that occasionally rage around here I don't think that Evernote have a hidden agenda, apart from the one about the spaceship they keep under Libin's house.

[Brad G.]

Companies often do have a "secret agenda" regarding this stuff. Ever notice how services like GMail don't support encryption - and even go out of their way to make things like GPG support difficult to implement as [plug] plug-ins?

It usually has to do with them wanting to be able to search, index, or read you data to tailor advertising to you from its content. I don't know what Evernote would want - but it's a real problem.

[Metrodon]

Well Evernote already let you encrypt your data on the desktop platforms, so that hardly seems to be reasonable.

 

I'm guessing (and it's only a guess) that it's a usability issue and the risk of mistyping an encryption password is greater on a mobile client and therefore there is a higher chance of data being locked away that neither the user or Evernote can recover.

[GrumpyMonkey]

Companies often do have a "secret agenda" regarding this stuff. Ever notice how services like GMail don't support encryption - and even go out of their way to make things like GPG support difficult to implement as [plug] plug-ins?It usually has to do with them wanting to be able to search, index, or read you data to tailor advertising to you from its content. I don't know what Evernote would want - but it's a real problem.

Hi. Welcome to the forums. I don't know if Evernote has a secret agenda, because it is a secret

However, I can say that Evernote does not data mine your content (they have explicitly stated this in numerous venues), they take the security and privacy of your data seriously (see their three "laws"), and in all of my interactions with the developers and staff they have never given any hint of any secret agendas. In fact, if anything, they have been surprisingly forthcoming about their work.
http://blog.evernote...ata-protection/

At any rate, the lack of a feature does not suggest (to me, at least) any nefarious schemes. I'd like to see markdown support, vertical list view on the Mac, and all sorts of other nice things that I think "could" be done, but the fact that they are not doing it does not suggest to me that they are out to take down Daring Fireball or getting paid off by the horizontal list view lobby

[jefito]

The spaceship is actually under the woodpile, and it's where they keep the nested notebooks and regular expression searches...