True Offline Mode or Encrypted Data

Has there been any new development for end-to-end encryption in Dynalist?

There is another thread asking for the same: Request: Page Encryption

I would really like to see end-to-end encryption in Dynalist and I’m perfectly aware of the usual deal: if I loose my encryption key the data ist lost.

Copying a long encryption key from device to device is preferable to not having encryption at all and password managers are perfect for this job.

I do get the difficulties on server side. Are there any new Ideas to solve this?

One other aspect is search. But search is already done on client side so this should still be possible with encrypted documents.

If I had a wish, Dynalist would be open source and end-to-end encrypted. But I’m fine with the next best thing: closed source and encryption.

I can’t speak for self-hosting companies. But I imagine there are many people using Dynalist who are the only ones in their company. So it doesn’t make sense to self host it. But the company still may allow them to use Dynalist if it were encrypted.

My question is: How hard is it to implement end-to-end encryption in Dynalist? Besides merge conflicts, are there other server side functions that would break? And can’t we outsource those functions to the client apps?

Maybe this isn’t helpful but I’m using Bitwarden as my password manager. It is open source, offers mobile apps and a web app. Obviously it encrypts end to end; but it seems to work and they must have had the same problems.

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