Crypt4GH-JS: securely storing sensitive data online with client-side encryption
Fabienne Thelen, Jannis Hochmuth, Sven Griep, Benedikt Schwab, Alexander Goesmann, Frank Förster · 2025
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Description
Fabienne Thelen and five co-authors present a software tool in a paper whose text is dated 2024. The tool, Crypt4GH-JS, brings a known file encryption standard into the web browser. It is written in JavaScript, the language that runs inside web pages.
The tool lets an app encrypt data on the user's own device before the data is sent to cloud storage. That way, the stored files stay unreadable to the storage provider. The authors report that the tool barely slows uploads or downloads. It can be installed through the Node Package Manager or taken from a public code page, and a demo site lets readers test it in the browser.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Fabienne Thelen, Jannis Hochmuth, Sven Griep, Benedikt Schwab, Alexander Goesmann, Frank Förster |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 12 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |