14 DAY TRIAL // A couple of days ago Information Appliance Associates released PocketMac SecureNotes. This is the first software tool to act as a real safe deposit box for data on Mac systems, or this is what its developers claim.
Announcing The World's First Electronic Safe Deposit Box for all that private information you really, really want to keep private. It will safely store everything from your Driver's License # to your auto insurance policy number as well as source code snippets for you developers out there. Even entire movies you want to keep private and safe, they say.
PocketMac SecureNotes is built on top of an encrypted database, meaning that every time one adds a new record, the application automatically adds that entire item to its encrypted database. It only unlocks the data if the right password is provided. Each "title", IAA says, can safely store files of up to 1GB+ of information and, if one forgets or does not know the password, then the data in PocketMac SecureNotes can not be opened or viewed.
The reason nothing can be accessed without knowing the password is because the program uses a 448-bit encryption scheme. Apparently, there is no one that can break such an encryption because with that level of encryption, one billion computers each searching one billion keys per second, would need more than 10*10^24 years to recover that information. Since the the age of the universe is estimated at 10*10^9 years, obviously, no one is going to stumble on this information by trial and error.
MacNN reports on this subject that SecureNotes has been tested by PocketMac engineers more than nine months to ensure the software keeps data safe. Also, its easy synchronization and export capabilities were tested to make sure that the application integrates with PocketMac for BlackBerry to support synchronization of data with a BlackBerry from any desired Mac.
The run, PocketMac SecureNotes needs Mac OS X 10.3 or 10.4 and 10MB of free disk space for the initial install. PocketMac SecureNotes runs natively on Intel-based Macs as a Universal Binary and it is priced at $29.95.
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