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Comment by ccorcos

4 years ago

I created something similar to this [1] a few years ago. Before the proliferation of web crypto apis, I just used a WASM’d libsodium. It adds some page weight but whatever…

My use-case was for traveling, it seems like a good idea to have a backup photo of my passport and credit card in case I loose everything. Sure I could put it on Dropbox, but do I really want to log in to my entire Dropbox on someone else’s machine?

Ironically, it has yet to be useful. Just a fun project inspired by the realization that you can base64 just about anything in an HTML document.

1: https://github.com/ccorcos/encrypted-html-vault

Cool!

Main difference I see: you have thousands of lines of JS in your vault. Mine is a lot simpler because it uses the browser Cryptography APIs.

Linked your project from the README.