Guides/Accounting
File encryption for accountants and bookkeepers
Client books, payroll, and tax returns are the files most likely to end up on a shared drive by accident. Elba is a small local tool that keeps them sealed by default.
One folder per client
The typical shape: a ‘clients’ folder with one sub-folder per client. Seal the top folder with Elba. Everything inside is opaque at rest.
Seasonal peace of mind
During tax season the sealed folder can live on your laptop, at the office, and on a backup drive — the same file, the same password, the same behaviour.
Questions people actually ask
- Will my accounting software read from a sealed folder?
- Only while it's open. Open Elba, work in QuickBooks / Xero, close Elba to reseal.
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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