Encrypting/Decrypting text - serious design flaw

[Roginator 3]

I think there's a serious design flaw when it comes to encrypting/decrypting text. What happens if you mistype the password? You will never be able to decrypt it. Surely you should be required to re-type the password when encrypting it to minimise the risk of mistyping?

[PinkElephant 9,010]

Simple answer: This is not the only flaw.

My recommendation: Don't use the feature. Don't use EN to store things like passwords. It will not encrypt text with any formatting, like bullet points. You can't encrypt attachments, so it is worthless for anything but plain text.

For safe storage of passwords, get a password manager.

For safe storage of documents, get a safe cloud service. Boxcryptor (or similar tools) will encrypt anything on your computer BEFORE it is uploaded to a cloud service of your choice. It will only be decoded locally, on demand.

[Roginator 3]

Fair enough but I wasn't encrypting either passwords or a document. I was encrypting a short note and Evernote is where I store my notes. Anyway, I take your point but they really should either improve the feature or remove it.

[PinkElephant 9,010]

We have a long standing feature request to have an encrypted "secure" notebook inside of every EN account. It should only decrypt locally, never syncing not encrypted content with the server.

Everything else IMHO will not work without loopholes.

[dgotthelf 0]

But how can I decrypt bulleted text that I had encrypted prior to the last update?  I can't do it and this is a disaster!  I need to decrypt this bulleted text so I can get the passwords.

[PinkElephant 9,010]

1) My opinion: Never ever use this encryption feature to store passwords (you are just learning why). There are free (and more paid) password managers build for the job.

2) The easiest way to solve the problem is to install a legacy client on a PC or a Mac. Decrypt using this client, convert everything into plain (PLAIN !) text, encrypt again.

https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/360052560314-Install-an-older-version-of-Evernote