Industrial Strength Encryption
Yojimbo helps you protect the privacy of your sensitive information, by providing easy to use encryption. This encryption is used automatically for Password items, and you may also choose to use it (on a per-item basis) for Notes, PDFs, and Web Archives.
Yojimbo uses the Advanced Encryption Standard (US FIPS PUB 197) algorithm, with a 256-bit key (AES-256).
According to the Committee on National Security Systems :
The design and strength of all key lengths of the AES algorithm (i.e., 128, 192 and 256) are sufficient to protect classified information up to the SECRET level. TOP SECRET information will require use of either the 192 or 256 key lengths. The implementation of AES in products intended to protect national security systems and/or information must be reviewed and certified by NSA prior to their acquisition and use.
Download the complete report here.
You can encrypt any item except a Serial Number, via the Encryption Bar. (Yojimbo encrypts Passwords by default.)
Encrypted Item in Yojimbo
Until you’ve decrypted an item or clicked View, this is all anyone will see. Decrypt is permanent. Until you Encrypt the item again, it will be stored without encryption. View, on the other hand, is temporary, and you will need to enter your password any time you’d like to look at it, keeping it more secure. You can show or hide the Encryption bar as you like.
Using Encryption on multiple items
You can also decrypt, view, and encrypt via menu items. Select a bunch of Yojimbo Items and do them all at once.
Temporarily Decrypted Item in Yojimbo
Thank goodness for AES-256 encryption!