clevernote

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status: draft

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Warning

This app relies on window.crypto.getRandomValues() and so you probably want to use something else if you're here for anything other than curiosity.

Now what

We want to store encrypted notes on a webserver, for access later.

Clone the repo, go to ./server/cryptokeys/ and follow these instructions. This will create an AES256 encrypted key for your Certificate Authority:

openssl genrsa -aes256 -out ca.key 2048
openssl req -new -key ca.key -out ca.csr
openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in ca.csr -out ca.crt -signkey ca.key

The ca.key will be trusted by the Client to verify that messages with the Server are authentic.

openssl genrsa -aes256 -out server.key 2048
openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr
openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in server.csr -signkey server.key -out server.crt

This will create the self-signed certificate for the server.

Now you can remove the password from the server.key:

openssl rsa -in server.key.org -out server.key

Then npm install & bower install

Finally nodemon server/app.js and you should be good to go.