Is this HIPAA / GDPR compliant?

Elba provides AES-256-GCM at-rest encryption, which is the technical control both frameworks reference. Compliance is a matter of your policies; the tool gives you the primitive.

Can I share sealed files with a colleague?

Yes. Send them the sealed folder and the password over separate channels. Both sides use the same Elba file to unseal.

Guides/Sensitive docs

An encryption tool for sensitive documents that fits on a USB stick

Sensitive documents — contracts, medical notes, HR files, client records — deserve an encryption tool that is small, boring, and offline. Elba is a single HTML file that seals a folder of documents with AES-256-GCM.

The threat model most people actually have

Most people worrying about sensitive documents are not worrying about a nation-state. They are worrying about a stolen laptop, a shared drive, a nosy colleague, or an old backup that never got deleted. Local at-rest encryption handles all four.

Boring is the feature

The best encryption tool for sensitive documents is one you'll actually use. Elba has no dashboard, no plan tiers, no cross-sell. You open a folder, you close a folder. That's it.

Questions people actually ask

Is this HIPAA / GDPR compliant?: Elba provides AES-256-GCM at-rest encryption, which is the technical control both frameworks reference. Compliance is a matter of your policies; the tool gives you the primitive.
Can I share sealed files with a colleague?: Yes. Send them the sealed folder and the password over separate channels. Both sides use the same Elba file to unseal.

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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