Guides/Sensitive use
Encrypt notes: a quiet vault for people speaking up
Speaking up is dangerous. The paperwork of speaking up — timelines, screenshots, contact lists — is a target. Elba is a sealed local folder that never contacts a server, so there is nothing about your work to subpoena from a vendor.
Threats Elba does address
A stolen laptop. A compromised cloud account. A curious IT department. In each case the sealed folder is opaque.
Threats it does not
State-level malware on your device, keyloggers, or someone standing behind you. Consider Tails or a dedicated air-gapped machine for the highest-risk work.
Questions people actually ask
- Do I have to trust the vendor?
- The vendor (us) never sees your files or your key. The source is inside the HTML file for you to read.
- Can I destroy the vault quickly?
- Yes — delete the folder. Without the password, the bytes are meaningless.
Take the island
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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