aliceandbob-io / aliceandbob-desktop

🔐 A free, light and easy to use desktop tool to generate PGP key pairs, encrypt and decrypt messages.

aliceandbob.io - Desktop app 🖥️🔐

A free, light and easy to use desktop app to generate PGP key pairs, encrypt and decrypt messages. The desktop app works fully offline to ensure maximum security to the user.

Download it ⬇️

• From the repo's Github page: releases
• From aliceandbob.io
• From electronjs.org page

Installation

⚠️ If you install the app on windows, you might get a warning from your anti-virus. It is because Windows builds are not signed. No worries, just add an exception for the app in your anti-virus software.

Features ✨

• 🗝️ Generate PGP key pairs
• 🔒 Encrypt messages with the public PGP key of the receiver
• 🔓 Decrypt messages with your private PGP key

Tech 🔧

• Electron.js: Electron.js helps building cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• Electron-forge: Electron Forge is a complete tool for creating, publishing, and installing modern Electron applications
• HTML/CSS/Javascript
• Stimulus JS (v2.0.0): A modest JavaScript framework
• Webpack: The whole app is bundle with webpack through the electron-forge webpack plugin

Library 📚

OpenPGP.js (v5.3.0), a JavaScript implementation of the OpenPGP protocol. Find out more on openpgpjs.org.

Contributing 🍰

Please contribute using GitHub Flow. Refer first to the open issues then create a branch, add commits, and open a pull request!

You can also read the CODE OF CONDUCT.

When forking and cloning the repo, don't forget to do the following:

1. Make sure to have node, npm and yarn installed on your machine
2. run yarn install from the cloned repo.
3. Then, yarn start to launch aliceandbob.io Desktop App in dev mode.

⚠️ If you get any errors and warnings, install the necessary apps, packages or updates your platform may require.

Find more info regarding the process and the configuration on the electronforge.io page.

Building the desktop app locally 🏗️

If you want to package and build the app on your machine, run yarn make --platform=<target build platform> --arch=<target arch>. As for the platform, you can choose either:

• win32,
• linux,
• darwin, or
• mas.

As for the arch, you can choose either:

• x64,
• ia32,
• armv7l,
• arm64, or
• mips64el.

See all available options on the electronPackager page.

Note that some specific builds cannot be done from some platforms. Learn more here.

Want to support the app? ❤️

License 📄

Licensed under the MIT License.

aliceandbob-desktop's Issues

Application doesn't work

Every time when I'm trying something whatever like... decrypt, encrypt application shows error and doesn't actually do anything.

docs: add a link to readme.md

A new link is to be added to README.md which refers to the electronjs.org page.
Link to be added: https://www.electronjs.org/apps/aliceandbob-io

The link should appear in third position below the two existing links and following the same format (see below):

Download it ⬇️

• From the repo's Github page: releases
• From aliceandbobio

[Feature request] Make passphrase optional

See aliceandbob/issues/51

Please add it to scoop package

Black screen after generating a keypair

After generating a keypair program shows a black screen

Output from console:

<--- Last few GCs --->

[23366:0x7100000000]    44874 ms: Scavenge 37.7 (40.2) -> 36.7 (40.2) MB, 0.1 / 0.0 ms  (average mu = 0.985, current mu = 0.989) allocation failure 
[23366:0x7100000000]    44950 ms: Scavenge 37.5 (40.5) -> 36.9 (40.5) MB, 0.1 / 0.0 ms  (average mu = 0.985, current mu = 0.989) external memory pressure 
[23366:0x7100000000]    44950 ms: Scavenge 36.9 (40.5) -> 36.9 (40.5) MB, 0.2 / 0.0 ms  (average mu = 0.985, current mu = 0.989) external memory pressure 


<--- JS stacktrace --->

OS and device info

Hardware: MacMini 2020 M1
OS: MacOS Monterey 12.2.1

Video showing error

aliceandbob-blackscreen.mp4

Edit:
It works fine with Intel Macs

Action buttons don't work

"Generate", "Encrypt", "Decrypt" and view password buttons don't work.

It looks like there is not action attached to it.
I've checked the browser console and it says that "$ is not defined"
That is probably blocking DOM event handlers which is causing the error

OS and device info

Hardware: MacBook Pro 2017
OS: MacOS Monterey 12.2.1

Screenshot from browser console below:

Portable app

PGP