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Rephrase from "Encrypted" #96
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In which contexts? All contexts in which "encrypt" shows up? Password protected shares are actually encrypted using AES-256 so the phrasing is accurate; rephrasing it would depend on whether that's a good idea from a UX perspective. Do you think it'd be better UX to say "password protected" rather than "encrypted"? (I'm no UX expert myself) |
You know, come to think of it, you have a point. It's better to describe the result than the process. Particularly for less tech savvy end users, it's better to tell them that they have to enter a password because it's password protected, rather than trying to make them understand encryption. Everyone knows what a password is anyway. I'll see if I can make this change tomorrow. |
All the passwords are encrypted somewhere (we don't care, we hope they are), but the actual sharing link is just "password protected". |
Also push these changes to the translation portal. Thanks |
The changes are pushed to the portal already. The strings "Enable end-to-end encryption" and "Disable end-to-end encryption" are kept as-is as they are the helper text for the "Password protect share" option (which was changed). You may refer to the commit above to see which strings were changed and pushed. |
"end-to-end encryption" in the lines of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_encryption So you say that the server doesn't know the actual location and stores the coords encrypted with the password? I didn't look in the code |
That is correct. The data is encrypted here in the app and decrypted by the frontend. The backend has no idea what the data actually is and just has to pass it though without performing any validation or processing it in any way, as it doesn't have the key. |
This is great to hear! I've been reading about Hauk before possibly giving it a try, and I saw on the screenshot that there's a reference to "end-to-end encryption", but I couldn't find anything about it in the FAQ. Is this documented anywhere? If not, maybe it would be good to document it as it's a "killer feature" for many :) |
That's a good idea, actually. Didn't think about adding it to the FAQ, but I'll make sure to get that done soon. |
...to "Password protected", as that's the right description of its function anyway.
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