Level 5* DTLow 5,721 Posted September 24, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted September 24, 2018 Evernote only supports encryption for text selected within a note; not at the note or notebook level. I make use of the native encryption in attachments; PDFs, Office/iWork documents, ... Link to comment
PanteR 5 Posted September 24, 2018 Author Share Posted September 24, 2018 It's a pity. I want to protect personal notes. But I won't use office. Link to comment
PhilipTobias 2 Posted September 24, 2018 Share Posted September 24, 2018 I have encrypted quite a few individual notes. I use them for saving serial numbers, passwords, customer passwords, personal information, and so on. An earlier respondent mentioned that you can only encrypt text within a note. So I encrypt ALL the text within the note. That accomplishes the same thing as encrypting the note itself. Hope that helps. ...pt 1 Link to comment
Rob van Vliet 43 Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 On 9/24/2018 at 11:37 PM, PhilipTobias said: I have encrypted quite a few individual notes. I use them for saving serial numbers, passwords, customer passwords, personal information, and so on. An earlier respondent mentioned that you can only encrypt text within a note. So I encrypt ALL the text within the note. That accomplishes the same thing as encrypting the note itself. Hope that helps. ...pt Be careful: Evernote is "vulnerable" for this scenario: - Create a new note - Type your secret text - (in the background the note is synced) - Encrypt the text - Go to note history - Whoops, here is your un-encrypted secret text again Link to comment
Level 5* DTLow 5,721 Posted September 26, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted September 26, 2018 3 minutes ago, Rob van Vliet said: (in the background the note is synced) Good point. I wouldn't do encryption in a sync'd notebook. Use a Local Notebook or work external to Evernote. Link to comment
Level 5* s2sailor 1,394 Posted September 26, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted September 26, 2018 2 hours ago, Rob van Vliet said: Be careful: Evernote is "vulnerable" for this scenario: - Create a new note - Type your secret text - (in the background the note is synced) - Encrypt the text - Go to note history - Whoops, here is your un-encrypted secret text again This vulnerability can occur but I don't think it is as likely as you are suggesting. As I recall, the backup that is used for note history is somewhat random but I believe occurs about every 8 hours. Not everything you type will get saved to note history. As I understand it, if you make 10 changes to your note before the next backup occurs, only the last version is saved. This is not like a document versioning backup, just a snapshot of your note's content taken roughly 3x/day. For what you describe to happen, a note would need to be sync'd and a backup to occur before you encrypt the note. Possible, but maybe not that likely, again, as I understand it, though I do recall post's where folks have reported this happening. That said, I would like to see EN implement true zero knowledge note and notebook level encryption. Link to comment
Notaker 5 Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 I don't care so much about the mentioned vulnerability, but the current encryption solution is unusable for me, since I am not able to encrypt text that includes bullet points or hyperlinks, which most of my notes (including those that are sensitive) do. My concern is primarily avoiding that a sensitive note pops up in a search in a professional setting and I am really disappointed that Evernote makes this practically impossible. Link to comment
Level 5 Dave-in-Decatur 2,636 Posted May 29, 2020 Level 5 Share Posted May 29, 2020 To avoid the specific problem you mention, you might tag sensitive notes with a tag like "sensitive" or "nosearch" or whatever, and then when you do a search in a professional setting, put "-tag:nosearch" at the end. That will keep those notes from appearing; and assuming what you're doing is interesting enough, your colleagues wouldn't spend much time wondering what tag:nosearch was about. 1 Link to comment
Vidalia 23 Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 On 5/28/2020 at 10:10 AM, Notaker said: My concern is primarily avoiding that a sensitive note pops up in a search in a professional setting and I am really disappointed that Evernote makes this practically impossible. Would it not be better to separate those sensitive notes entirely? You can either use a different EN a/c for that or use a completely separate app like Simple Note/Nimbus Note/One Note etc. Link to comment
Level 5* DTLow 5,721 Posted May 30, 2020 Level 5* Share Posted May 30, 2020 1 hour ago, Vidalia said: Would it not be better to separate those sensitive notes entirely? Maybe, but I don't want to complicate my data storage I'm satisfied with an easy encryption strategy also a "sensitive" tag to exclude notes from searches Link to comment
Level 5* s2sailor 1,394 Posted May 30, 2020 Level 5* Share Posted May 30, 2020 On 5/28/2020 at 5:10 AM, Notaker said: My concern is primarily avoiding that a sensitive note pops up in a search in a professional setting Some manage this by using separate EN accounts. I keep everything in one account but I have setup a work stack and a home stack and then have two saved searches, one to search only home and another to search only work. If I’m in a sensitive setting I’ll click on the work saved search first and then drill down from there. 1 Link to comment
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