Guides/Research
File encryption for researchers: sealing research data on your own machine
Research data — interview transcripts, participant records, unpublished results — is the class of file that most benefits from a small, offline fence. Elba is that fence for a folder.
Fits the IRB story
Most institutional review boards ask for ‘data encrypted at rest with a strong password’. Elba delivers exactly that primitive, and its source is inspectable in a single HTML file for your IT reviewer.
Portable across machines and years
One HTML file, no installer, no license server. The tool you used in year one of the study is the tool you'll be able to use in year five.
Questions people actually ask
- Can we submit Elba for IT / IRB review?
- Yes — the whole program is one text file. Reviewers can read it end to end.
- Does it work for interview audio?
- Yes. Any file type goes in the sealed folder.
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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