Many specialized authenticated encryption modes have been developed for use with symmetric block ciphers. Implemented correctly, authenticated encryption removes the usefulness of the decryption oracle, by preventing an attacker from gaining useful information that the attacker does not already possess. This, in turn, prevents the attacker from requesting the decryption of any ciphertext unless it was generated correctly using the encryption algorithm, thus implying that the plaintext is already known. Authenticated encryption schemes can recognize improperly-constructed ciphertexts and refuse to decrypt them. In these attacks, an adversary attempts to gain an advantage against a cryptosystem (e.g., information about the secret decryption key) by submitting carefully chosen ciphertexts to some "decryption oracle" and analyzing the decrypted results. In addition to protecting message integrity and confidentiality, authenticated encryption can provide security against chosen ciphertext attack.
ENCRYPT IN MAC NOTEPAD PASSWORD
They probably did this by changing the password on the account, as that would be easy and straightforward. What they did in the case of the San Bernardino terrorist incident is to give access to the iCloud account to the FBI. I am putting in a little effort here to get myself back to a feeling of writing my inner most thoughts with a feeling of privacy, instead of feeling that maybe somebody can read then, it disrupts the flow of writing knowing that people could potentially someday access my journal, it's a bit extreme I know but it's worth 2 mins here just trying to understand this privacy concern.Īpple can't give away encryption keys, because Apple does not have your encryption keys.
If I do my journal writing on Apple notes and lock the notes, are they EVER accessible by anybody else? I know Apple potentially can give away encryption keys for iCloud as they did with the case in the US, but what if my Apple Notes are locked, can these be ever accessible by anybody else? So would like to journal on something with this capability, mainly for the backup not so much about he synchronisation.
Nowadays though it's so convenient to have cloud based backups and synchronising.
ENCRYPT IN MAC NOTEPAD WINDOWS
I used to write on paper, and I also used to have a Windows 'app' that was backed up on a USB key not online. I am a regular journal write and am considering Apple Notes. Ok so I am not terrorist, and don't have anything I need to hide legally, but the whole internet privacy thing has motivated me recently to take some steps to making my digital world a little more private and secure.