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**(184) How do I password protect content?**
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**(184) How do I password protect content?**
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Select some text by long pressing it, and in the style toolbar at the bottom tap on the *<ins>A</ins>*-button and select *Password protect* in the pop-up menu.
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Password protected content is a simple, yet secure form of end-to-end encryption that requires no configuration.
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How to use: select some text by long pressing it, and in the style toolbar at the bottom tap on the *<ins>A</ins>*-button and select *Password protect* in the pop-up menu.
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This will replace the selected content with a link that the recipient can click to decrypt the content on a dedicated static web page.
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Password protected content is sent as a [URI fragment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_fragment) and decrypted in the browser with JavaScript.
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Password protected content is sent as a [URI fragment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_fragment) and decrypted in the browser with JavaScript.
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In other words, password protected content is never stored on or seen by third party servers.
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In other words, protected content is never stored on or seen by third party servers.
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Password protected content is encrypted with AES/GCM with a 256 bits key derived with PBKDF2/SHA-512 with 120,000 iterations.
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Password protected content is encrypted with [AES](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard) / [GCM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galois/Counter_Mode)
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with a 256 bits key derived with [PBKDF2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2) / [SHA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Hash_Algorithms)-512 with 120,000 iterations.
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With a sufficiently long/complex password, which is communicated to the recipient securely, this is considered safe in 2022 and for the foreseeable future.
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With a sufficiently long/complex password, which is communicated to the recipient securely, this is considered safe in 2022 and for the foreseeable future.
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The maximum content size is 1,500 characters, which includes HTML formatting tags.
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The maximum content size is 1,500 bytes, which includes [HTML](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML) formatting tags.
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Images will be replaced with placeholders to reduce the content size, but other formatting, like bold, italic, etc., will be retained.
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Images will be replaced with placeholders to reduce the content size, but other formatting, like bold, italic, etc., will be retained.
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[Cross-site scripting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting) is prevented by using [DOMPurify](https://github.com/cure53/DOMPurify) (Apache License Version 2.0).
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Cross-site scripting (XSS) is prevented by using [DOMPurify](https://github.com/cure53/DOMPurify) (Apache License Version 2.0).
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This feature is available since version 1.1985, but only in the GitHub version of the app.
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This feature is available since version 1.1985. This feature is not available in the Play store version of the app.
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Sending protected text is a pro feature, decrypting protected text is a free feature.
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Sending protected text is a pro feature, decrypting protected text is a free feature.
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