Guides/Use case
Encrypt genealogy research — family archives, sealed
Genealogy files are the sort of archive you inherit and pass on — decades of certificates, letters, and scans. Elba lets you keep the lot in a sealed folder on your own machine, safe to back up to any cloud drive.
One vault, many decades
Birth, marriage, and death certificates; letters; scans of old photographs; DNA test PDFs. All sealed together, browsable while unlocked, opaque at rest.
Sharing with cousins
Copy the sealed vault to a family cloud drive. Share the password with the relatives you trust. No genealogy site sees the archive.
Questions people actually ask
- Can I keep DNA raw data files here?
- Yes — that's exactly the kind of file you don't want indexed by an advertising graph.
- Is a lifetime vault sensible?
- For most families, yes. If it grows past tens of gigabytes, split by decade.
Quick answers
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Elba is one HTML file. It runs locally in a Chromium browser, seals a folder with AES-256-GCM, never phones home, and becomes open source on 1 January 2030.
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