So why signup?
There are several benefits to signing up.
- You can save all your encryped notes into your private notebook
- You can view statistcs about each of your notes (how many attempts and successes were made at decrypting)
- You can edit your notes at any time
- You can leave comments on notes you decrypt
- You can change the encryption key if you realized it was too easy or too difficult for others
- You might even motivate me to add new features...
What is this site about?
I know some people probably wonder why this site even exists. The answer is simple - to amuse.
On WetNote.com you can write encrypted messages - how do you do that?
You can either write encrypted messages into your own notebook (you have to sign up for free to get your notebook) or you can write notes into the "public" notebook. In either case, writing an encrypted message is as simple as clicking "Write It" and filling in the big text field. Then enter a secret key that will be used to encrypt your message. That's it - your message will be encrypted and posted on the site and you can click on it to get a permalink
How secure is the encryption - why do I want to give you my key?
- First - I don't care about your key. Second, the key is never stored in a readable format on this or any server. The key is only in your head. So - if you forget your key, good luck trying to decrypt the note.
- As for the encryption - this site uses a very powerful encryption method: TWOFISH Cipher Block Chaining please read more about this interesting subject!
Wait - you said my key was "never stored in a readable format" - what does that mean?
Alright, you got me. The key is stored on the server - but in an irreversible format. The key you use is stored using a sha1 along with a custom hashing algorithm of my own - in short, don't worry. Even if the whole database was comprimised - your encrypted message would still be as safe as it was before (which is pretty darn safe). The reason the key is stored in this format is to provide statistics to registered users. This way they can see how many times their notes have been successfully decrypted.
