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scrambls

scrambls is a Cloud security and privacy service developed by Wave Systems Corp. that makes online sharing simple and safe. A scrambls plug-in is added to a browser toolbar or to a scrambls-enabled application. scrambls lets the user define the privacy policy for each communication by identifying the email address of approved readers. It is a simple, friendly, way to encrypt social media posts, files and folders, while sharing the decryption key securely only with user-specified other people. scrambls addresses users concerns about privacy, copyright, disclosure, and posterity.

Social media

Today, the majority of online content is submitted as posts on commercial sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. The simple scrambls web browser plug-in lets the user decide exactly who sees what they post to the web, including to social networking sites. scrambls encrypts content before it is posted on the web.

A user defines a group of other people with whom to share unscrambld content — staff, partners, suppliers, shareholders, customers, friends. scrambls creates an encryption/decryption key for each post, uses it to encrypt the post, and then the user decides which groups have access to that decryption key. The key is stored on a scrambls server. scrambls encrypts posts before they even leaves the browser, and anyone who doesn’t have the key won’t be able to read it.

Because this allows people under 18 years of age to use social media among friends without exposing their communication to strangers, the Child Safety Network named scrambls the winner of its 2012 National Child Safety Award.

scrambl email attachments and files

scrambls also works with files. A user right-clicks a file or folder and selects the group to share with. scrambls creates a protected (encrypted) file that can be easily and privately shipped through the Internet. The selected group's members can open up the original with a click.

The plug-in is available at www.scrambls.com. There’s a video walk-through available there.

Once scrambls is installed, a drop-down box appears on the user's browser that permits entering the individuals or groups with whom the user wants to share content.

--rmwesterschulte 22:28, 26 March 2013 (UTC)