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by hermanmerman 3973 days ago
Does it support self-hosting of the server part? If I could deploy it to one of my Digital Ocean servers easily, I could see it become my default (and last) password manager. I'm too small a fish for a hacker to actually hunt my own server, and even if they do... it's zero knowledge, so I think I'd be comfortable with that.

Side question: does it support sharing of secured notes and credentials? even to non-encryptr users?

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In theory, sure. Crypton.io itself is available on github and you could build your own server.

On the Encryptr app side, src/app.js uses window.crypton.host and _.port to specify the crypton endopint to connect to. I think the app store build of encryptr uses a crypton endopint at devgeeks.org.

You could just use (apache) cordova to roll your own build of the android app with app.js set to point to your preferred self-hosted endpoint.

YMMV.

Note: this is definitely a product at the MVP stage. The platform is capable of implementing data sharing, but that is not currently used by the Encryptr application.

Indeed, you can do this and we encourage it. We are also building a private "feed" application called "Kloak", which resembles Twitter but is private and "un-dataminable".

See: https://zk.gs/ZK/kloak.pdf

> Does it support self-hosting...?

This was my first question too. I checked the android app, and there was no obvious configuration option for a different server.

It's open source, so at least in theory it's possible to modify it to your needs.

Also side note: Was a little disappointed to not see this on f-droid's marketplace since it is open source and hosted on github. Need to get that changed. :-)

Yes!