Crypto Book

Crypto Book is a tool for you to save confidential information. If the information is for you only, it will be encrypted to you before being saved; if the information is for both you and your contact, it will be encrypted for both you and your contact before being saved.

The Crypto Book is used as an index to match the subject of the information with a file. The name of the file is chosen randomly to not reveal the subject of the information so that anyone who gets a copy of the file does not know what the file is about.

Open Crypto Book

From the main menu, choose "Tools > Crypto Book". If you haven't, you will need to provide your passphrase to decrypt your crypto book. Like password book, if things go well, you will see a split pane with a table on the top part and a data entry form on the bottom part. You can use the divider in the middle of the split pane to change the view size of the table or of the form.

The table is used to display your crypto book entries, and it has these columns, which are editable through the data entry form:

The data entry form is used to edit crypto book entries. It is synchronized with a selected row of the table. When synchronized, the "File" field is used to display the content of the file instead of the name of the file. You then can edit the content of the file. However, you cannot edit the file name.

Add an Entry

To add a new entry, click the + button on the toolbar. An empty row will be added into the table. It will be either added before the current selected row or at the end of the table. You can then use the data entry form to fill out necessary information. Once done that, click the Accept button on the toolbar. The table will be updated with the newly entered information. The information you type into the "File" field will be automatically encrypted into a file, whose name will be shown under the "File" column of the table.

Your license may limit how many entries you can have on your crypto book. When you hit the limit, you will need to either upgrade your license or delete some old entries to make room for new ones.

Modify an Entry

To modify an entry, first select the row of that entry by clicking on it. The data entry form will be updated to reflect the information in that row. Then use the data entry form to modify any information you like to make. Once done modification, click Accept button on the toolbar. The selected row will be modified as you have made.

If you only modify the content of the file, it will be re-encryted and saved. However, the entry itself is not changed since the save file name is used to store the modified content.

Delete an Entry

To delete an entry, first select the row of that entry by clicking on it. Then, click the - button on the toolbar. The deleted entry will not be deleted right away but it will be dimmed to reflect the change. This is to prevent accidental deletion of an useful entry.

To undelete a previously deleted entry, first select it. Then click the - button on the toolbar. Deleted entry can be modified too to resurrect it.

The final deletion of entries are done when the crypto book is saved and the crypto book screen is switched over to another screen.

Save the Book

To save the book, simply click the Save button on the toolbar. Any deleted entries will not be saved. The crypto book is automatically encrypted to yourself so that only you can read it.

Note: File content is saved when you hit the Accept button. If you edit or modify any file content, make sure click Accept button to save it.