{"id":11742,"date":"2014-07-05T11:28:18","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T18:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11742"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:06:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:06:29","slug":"the-ultra-simple-app-that-lets-anyone-encrypt-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/the-ultra-simple-app-that-lets-anyone-encrypt-anything","title":{"rendered":"The Ultra-Simple App That Lets Anyone Encrypt Anything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/author\/andygreenberg\/\" rel=\"author\">Andy Greenberg<\/a> \u2014 Wired<br \/>\n<br \/> Encryption is hard. When NSA leaker Edward Snowden wanted to communicate with journalist Glenn Greenwald via encrypted email, Greenwald couldn\u2019t figure out the venerable crypto program PGP even after Snowden made <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/56881481\">a 12-minute tutorial video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nadim Kobeissi wants to bulldoze that steep learning curve. At the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hope.net\/\">HOPE hacker conference<\/a> in New York later this month he\u2019ll release a beta version of an all-purpose file encryption program called miniLock, a free and open-source browser plugin designed to let even Luddites encrypt and decrypt files with practically uncrackable cryptographic protection in seconds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tagline is that this is file encryption that does more with less,\u201d says Kobeissi, a 23-year old coder, activist and security consultant. \u201cIt\u2019s super simple, approachable, and it\u2019s almost impossible to be confused using it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/07\/minilock-simple-encryption\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andy Greenberg \u2014 Wired Encryption is hard. When NSA leaker Edward Snowden wanted to communicate with journalist Glenn Greenwald via encrypted email, Greenwald couldn\u2019t figure out the venerable crypto program PGP even after Snowden made a 12-minute tutorial video. Nadim Kobeissi wants to bulldoze that steep learning curve. At the HOPE hacker conference in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1625],"tags":[2169],"class_list":["post-11742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encryption","tag-encryption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64947,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11742\/revisions\/64947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}