Send secure and encrypted text through email

Posted on February 24, 2009, 9:14 am, by Danish.

Firstly i would like to tell about a web service named as LockBin, and its a free web service which will let you send a free text which is secure and encrypted, well the service has been having issues and doesn’t seem to work anymore for some reason. LockBin basically worked by encrypting the text message using some kind of hash function like MD5 or SHA1. If you really want to send an encrypted email, why not just encrypt the text yourself! You can setup Outlook for encryption, but it’s very technical and requires lots of other services in order to work correctly.

A simple way to encrypt a text message is to use a free online tool like the Encrypt/Decrypt tool provided by WebMax.

encrypttextmessage

If we really looking towards its details so this tool is pretty straightforward, just type in your text and choose the hash function you want to use to encode or encrypt it in. So type in your secret message and click MD5 Encrypt or SHA1 Encrypt for the strongest encryption possible.

Now just email the encrypted text in a normal email to someone and call them and tell them to go to the same site, paste the text and click the appropriate decrypt button at the right! Of course you should never EMAIL the person telling them how to do this because if the email is intercepted, it would be pretty easy for a hacker to decrypt the message.

Once the other person knows, you can rest assured that any text you send will not be readable by anyone unless they know to go to this website. Go to the website and paste in the following SHA1 encrypted text and click SHA1 Decrypt and see my “secret” message:

d8f5588440aba29feee577e9a306e0ab52cf1201

It is very useful if you want to quickly send something very confidential or sensitive to someone via email or instant message, etc. Just make sure that no one else gets to know about the website other than the people you want to share private information with.



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