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Encrypt interview recordings — for journalists and researchers
Interview recordings are the rawest form of a source's trust. Elba lets you keep audio, transcripts, and consent forms in a sealed vault per project — safe to back up to any cloud, unreadable without your password.
One vault per story or study
Bundle audio, timestamps, transcript, and consent paperwork together. When the piece publishes, archive the whole sealed vault; when a source withdraws, delete cleanly.
Working with a transcription service
Export the one audio file you need transcribed, send it, and re-lock. The rest of the story stays in the vault.
Questions people actually ask
- Can I keep hours of audio in one vault?
- Yes. Large vaults take longer to seal, but sizes into the tens of gigabytes are fine.
- Does Elba do the transcription?
- No. Use your usual tool; Elba just keeps the source material safe.
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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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