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 SecretService - 0.3Encode texts in various applications including Mail, iChat, and TextEdit. |
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| Overall Rating: |   (4.0) |
Features: | (3.0) |
Support: | (2.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (4.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (4.0) |
Price: | (5.0) |
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Please continue development. - Version: 0.3, 5/15/2006 03:34PM PST
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Nick Sloan
There are very few options left for pure text encryption: pretty much just EnScrypt and SecretService. Which makes it a great pity that SS seems also to be fading away, since in essence it is a very neat solution indeed to the problem of quickly en/decrypting lumps of text within other apps.
I have no idea whether it is supposed to run under Tiger, but it does, well enough for me to have registered it, but somewhat flakily. The password dialog comes and goes apparently at random, the registration instructions refer to a non-existent Preferences menu item, there is still virtually no documentation, and my emails to the developer are all bounced.
Please Mizog, appreciate the unique value of your own work, dust off the cobwebs and give it a new lease of life. Because it’s worth it.
I have no idea whether it is supposed to run under Tiger, but it does, well enough for me to have registered it, but somewhat flakily. The password dialog comes and goes apparently at random, the registration instructions refer to a non-existent Preferences menu item, there is still virtually no documentation, and my emails to the developer are all bounced.
Please Mizog, appreciate the unique value of your own work, dust off the cobwebs and give it a new lease of life. Because it’s worth it.
Some notes to make usage easier - Version: 0.3, 4/25/2005 10:32AM PST
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vlb-2008
It's true that the documentation is extremely sparse. There are also a few "gotchas" in the program (which can be readily worked around)
1) The receiver needs to have a way to decrypt the text. Both users need to use the same password. This should be obvious and is fairly typical but ought to be spelled out in the (nonexistent) README file
2) you do NOT have to restart in order to usde this service!! Quit the installer from the dock menu, then log out at your convenience. The logout will ensure that the services menu is updated. Repeate: Restarting is NOT required (and for the installer to claim so is rude :-(
3) Note that the decrypted text will appear in another window (text isn't decrypted in place). Y9u can neither save from that Window nor copy the text (bad interface). However, you can drag the text (which is pre-selected) either as a text clipping or into a TextEdit or email window. So you can save it.
While I am not really happy about the problems mentioned above, at least there _are_ workarounds, the price is good, and I want something in the Services menu. I don't want to deal with AppleScript. So, I've paid and I will recommend SS with caveats.
Note to the developer - please fix these problems so the workarounds are no longer necessary and your app will be mmore useful.
1) The receiver needs to have a way to decrypt the text. Both users need to use the same password. This should be obvious and is fairly typical but ought to be spelled out in the (nonexistent) README file
2) you do NOT have to restart in order to usde this service!! Quit the installer from the dock menu, then log out at your convenience. The logout will ensure that the services menu is updated. Repeate: Restarting is NOT required (and for the installer to claim so is rude :-(
3) Note that the decrypted text will appear in another window (text isn't decrypted in place). Y9u can neither save from that Window nor copy the text (bad interface). However, you can drag the text (which is pre-selected) either as a text clipping or into a TextEdit or email window. So you can save it.
While I am not really happy about the problems mentioned above, at least there _are_ workarounds, the price is good, and I want something in the Services menu. I don't want to deal with AppleScript. So, I've paid and I will recommend SS with caveats.
Note to the developer - please fix these problems so the workarounds are no longer necessary and your app will be mmore useful.
http://homepage.mac.com/philipdow/AES256Service.zip