Crypto Book is a tool for you to save confidential information. If the information is for you only, it will be encrypted to you before being saved; if the information is for both you and your contact, it will be encrypted for both you and your contact before being saved.
The Crypto Book is used as an index to match the subject of the information with a file. The name of the file is chosen randomly to not reveal the subject of the information so that anyone who gets a copy of the file does not know what the file is about.
From the main menu, choose "Tools > Crypto Book". If you haven't, you will need to provide your passphrase to decrypt your crypto book. Like password book, if things go well, you will see a split pane with a table on the top part and a data entry form on the bottom part. You can use the divider in the middle of the split pane to change the view size of the table or of the form.
The table is used to display your crypto book entries, and it has these columns, which are editable through the data entry form:
Entry date, which is automatically populated when an entry is added.
The subject of the information indexed by the entry
Your contact which the information is addressed to
The name of the file that holds the information
Any notes
The data entry form is used to edit crypto book entries. It is synchronized with a selected row of the table. When synchronized, the "File" field is used to display the content of the file instead of the name of the file. You then can edit the content of the file. However, you cannot edit the file name.
To add a new entry, click the button on the toolbar.
An empty row will be added into the table. It will be
either added before the current selected row or at the
end of the table. You can then use the data entry form
to fill out necessary information. Once done that, click
the
button on the toolbar. The table will be
updated with the newly entered information. The information
you type into the "File" field will be automatically
encrypted into a file, whose name will be shown under
the "File" column of the table.
Your license may limit how many entries you can have on your crypto book. When you hit the limit, you will need to either upgrade your license or delete some old entries to make room for new ones.
To modify an entry, first select the row of that entry
by clicking on it. The data entry
form will be updated to reflect the information in that
row. Then use the data entry form to modify any information
you like to make. Once done modification, click
button on the toolbar. The selected row will be modified
as you have made.
If you only modify the content of the file, it will be re-encryted and saved. However, the entry itself is not changed since the save file name is used to store the modified content.
To delete an entry, first select the row of that entry
by clicking on it. Then, click the button on
the toolbar. The deleted entry will not be deleted right
away but it will be dimmed to reflect the change. This
is to prevent accidental deletion of an useful entry.
To undelete a previously deleted entry, first select it.
Then click the button on the toolbar.
Deleted entry can be modified too to resurrect it.
The final deletion of entries are done when the crypto book is saved and the crypto book screen is switched over to another screen.
To save the book, simply click the button
on the toolbar. Any deleted entries will not be saved.
The crypto book is automatically encrypted to yourself
so that only you can read it.
Note: File content is saved
when you hit the button. If you edit or modify
any file content, make sure click
button to
save it.