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Encryption for executive assistants — the private drawer, digital
Executive assistants carry a lot of small, sensitive detail — travel plans, personal correspondence, board paperwork. Elba is a sealed drawer for the digital half of that job.
What goes in the vault
Personal documents for your principal, travel itineraries, home addresses, and any file you'd never leave on the desk. Not company financials — those belong in the corporate system.
Working across two computers
Copy the sealed vault between machines on a USB stick or a personal cloud drive. The bytes are opaque; the password never crosses the wire.
Questions people actually ask
- Is this the right tool for board packs?
- For your personal working copy, yes. Official distribution should still go through the company's board portal.
- What if I leave the role?
- Hand over the sealed vault and password by policy, then delete your local copy.
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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