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HACKERALERT / Picocrypt

A very small, very simple, yet very secure encryption tool.
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Update README.md - fixing wrong informations #138

Closed BigPanda97 closed 1 year ago

BigPanda97 commented 1 year ago

Corrected some wrong informations for 7-Zip. 7-Zip is also available as a 100% portable version, and it also does NOT require Admin-rights. Admin is only needed if you would like to enable the “Add 7-Zip to context menu” setting. And to be honest, theoretically it is also more platform independent than the most others because you can open ZIP as well as 7Z files on Android and on iOS too, which can't be done with Picocrypt's files.

HACKERALERT commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the suggestions, but I don't think they're entirely correct. Can you show me where on 7-Zip's website I can download a portable version of it, or how I can install 7-Zip without it asking for admin privileges when I run the installer? Remember that the comparison table is made for the average user, so any version that isn't official or requires command line work doesn't really make sense. To the average user, 7-Zip is not portable and does require admin privileges to install.

BigPanda97 commented 1 year ago

Can you show me where on 7-Zip's website I can download a portable version of it, or how I can install 7-Zip without it asking for admin privileges when I run the installer?

Using Google or your favorite search engine, you can instantly find the latest version of 7-Zip portable, released by PortableApps, which is completely portable and does not need Admin rights.

Remember that the comparison table is made for the average user, so any version that isn't official or requires command line work doesn't really make sense.

For the “average user” it is more like that he Googles for a portable version of 7-Zip (and finds it instantly because it is the top match on every search engine) instead of googling for encryption tools and then finding Picocrypt here on GitHub after several minutes of searching.

Also, if you really want to be that precise, than you would have to remove the “Cross-Platform” checkmark on Picocrypt, because it can not be opened on Android / iOS, while the others can. (Cryptomator is available on Play Store and App Store, and even VeraCrypt containers can be opened on Android & iOS using 3th-Party-Apps which support them). And for defining something as “Cross-Platform”, mobile phone support is probably the most important criteria nowadays.

HACKERALERT commented 1 year ago

I don't think third-party apps should be considered for comparison. If I can't find a portable version on 7-Zip's website and have to resort to Google to find an unofficial version made by some PortableApps site, then 7-Zip is not officially portable. Picocrypt is portable by design and you don't have to look for a hacked together version that makes it portable. Being officially portable is especially important given the sensitive nature of security software.

HACKERALERT commented 1 year ago

Yeah I've given this more thought and I think it is good as it is right now. If I say 7-Zip is portable, then I also have to say Cryptomator is portable since an unofficial portable version of Cryptomator is available. But then all of them would be considered portable which makes no sense since Picocrypt is clearly more portable than any of the others, requiring no installation or hack by default or under any circumstance. Admin permissions is similar -- if I list 7-Zip (despite requiring admin to install) as requiring no permissions, then by the same token, all of the other ones would be permission free. But Picocrypt is clearly more permissionless than the others and it would make no sense. So I will keep the table as it is, but thank you for bringing this up for consideration 👍