CryptPad is a realtime collaborative editor. CryptPad is an open technology that you can run on your own machines. It doesn’t rely on a central point of authority.
Make quick collaborative documents for taking notes and writing down ideas together.
CryptPad is private, not anonymous. Privacy protects your data, anonymity protects you. CryptPad will make everything you do undecipherable to the outside world before anything is sent to the service to be distributed among all the participants.
Key Features
- 100% client side encryption. Encryption carried out in your web browser protects the data from the server, the cloud and the NSA. It relies on the ChainPad realtime engine. Chainpad allows users to collaborate without the mediation of a central authority.
Website: github.com/cryptpad/cryptpad
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Developer: XWiki SAS
License: GNU Affero General Public License either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version
XWiki began developing CryptPad as part of a French research project.
CryptPad is written in JavaScript. Learn JavaScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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