Thanks gazumped. That was my suspicion but, if it is the case that it only works in your local copy of Evernote, I feel the feature is half-baked. After all, in a web browser you see the padlock and the password hint. What would anyone expect from that besides being able to click to access whatever is behind the padlock. Also, if it never worked, how did OP say it finally worked? And you even mentioned using a different web browser. I'm using a web browser to view the shared note via this link. Accessing the share link from different browsers doesn't allow me to decrypt the text. EDIT: Oh, it finally works. I don't know why it wasn't earlier.