Fogpad: Document Editor with Encryption for Google Drive

Everybody uses cloud storage now. Some of the big name is Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive and many other nameable drives out there. Each cloud storage has its own capabilities, storage space and multiple add-ons that is used to enhance its capabilities. One such add on is done for Google Drive where there is a tool that can be used to create and encrypt your documents on the fly. Cool enough eh. Let’s see how it works.

So this FogPad (Only God knows what it means) is a tool used to create and edit documents (similar to Microsoft Office) and saves it automatically in your Google Drive storage. The good thing about this is, whenever you are creating a document (for Free account, you can create up to 10 documents) it will prompt you to password protect your documents (each and every one of them) and it will encrypt it with so called Military grade encryption which is 256 bits AES algorithm. Which is cool. You don’t have to install or use any other third party app in your machine before you can upload a password encrypted military grade encryption algorithm to your storage.

Web Base Email Encryption: Mailvelope vs SecureGmail

After the PRISM’s intention has been shed on broad day light, people get paranoid over the things they do in the Net. Email is certainly one of their concerns. Given that the Electronic Communications Privacy Act is still in debate, this PRISM thingy is just adding in the horror. It is also said that any encrypted emails, messages or files will be kept even longer by the NSA until they see what’s inside the secure envelope you are sending out.

Today I am going to share with you ways to secure one aspect of the “Big Boy’s” watch list. The emails. Emails has been crucial nowadays from cooperate usage until personal usages. Gone were the days where people install email client in their machine to use emails (well some of them still do) but people nowadays are very happy in what the web base emails can give them. Cutting of the configuration time and getting the right settings on place, now you can do almost anything in web. There was something lacking in web base emails which is encryption. With email clients such as Thunderbird, Outlook and etc, you have the option to encrypt the emails using PGP methodology however in web based emails they are just not there yet (or maybe forever). Well I don’t think the email providers would ever do that feature built in their emails on web but however some people who are concerned about security made a few tools that can help us to achieve just that missing part in the web based emails.