It is generally advisable not to spill out personal information like passwords, credit card information etc, over the Internet – well, at least the public domain of it. Instant Messaging clients, social networks, forums etc are the least safe place where you can share such information. However, what if you’re in a really dire need of sharing any personal information, and don’t have any other medium than to share it in risky environments. Or, suppose you want to deliver a message to a friend on a public forum and want to keep it such that only the two of you can decipher it? Does that hold true for you?
Ncode.ME is a free, lightweight tool that serves the purpose of encrypting text on your machine. It has the most basic interface imaginable (in fact, I still cannot decide if that is an interface at all), integrates with Windows itself so it works with all text editors, web pages etc, and can also decrypt text (essential for the receiving party to have the application installed in order to view message).
Once installed, the program will sit in the system tray, ready to be called for action. If you have some text to hide, simply select the text, press Shift+Ctrl+F9 to bring up Ncode.ME. Enter the encryption password and click encode, and your message will turn into meaningless characters. To turn it back to something meaningful, select the encrypted text, bring up Ncode again, enter password and this time select decode, and voila, the actual message appears right before your eyes.
Check out the demo video below.
Ncode.ME was tested on Windows 7 32-bit OS, and works only with Windows platform.
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