Further help with opening encrypted files on a computer

[just-a-user-sudo]

Hello!

I enjoy Markor and appreciate that it has the ability to encrypt notes, but I'm only willing to encrypt them if I can decrypt them outside of the app. So, I tried doing that, starting with reading this discussion and reading the READMEs here and here.

I didn't get much farther. Admittedly, I'm not familiar with Java— this is my first time trying to use Java software like this.

First, I downloaded the source code for jpencconverter and extracted it to a folder. After that, I downloaded the latest version of Java SE on my Windows 10 computer from here and installed it. The installer had already setup its own path variable, and I set a system variable to where Java is installed and named it "JAVA_HOME". And... that's all I could wrap my head around.

My question is, with Java installed and jpencconverter extracted on my computer, how exactly do I go about taking an encrypted *.md.jenc note from Markor and then decrypting it with jpencconverter? (I tried to answer this question with the READMEs and online searches but failed to.)

[gsantner]

@opensource21 is the best person to ask :-)

[opensource21]

I improved the Readme.md hopefully it's know clear enough.

[just-a-user-sudo]

Thank you @opensource21 for updating the README. To answer my own question:

Don't download the source code, download a release by hovering over "Deployments" and clicking on "Releases" as shown:

On the mobile site, bring out the menu, tap "Deployments", bring out the menu again and tap "Releases" as shown:

jenc.mp4

Make sure you have Java installed on your computer. You can download the latest version from here.

The README explains how to use jpencconverter.

After renaming application.properties.sample to application.properties, open it up as a text file. Edit the text after filesearch.endir= and filesearch.dedir= to point toward a directory within where you extracted the ZIP. (They can both point toward the same directory). For example, I have filesearch.endir=notes set, which means that notes in C:\Users\*\UserApps\jpencconverter\notes on my computer are eligible to be encrypted.

Removing #from #password=******* allows you to configure and save the default password input, otherwise you can leave it and insert it at every start.

As the README mentions, go into the folder you extracted the ZIP to with a command-shell and start with java -jar <jar-file> <mode>

Substitute <jar-file> with the filename of the .jar file in the extracted folder. For example, the current version is named jpencconverter-0.2.1.jar

Substitute <mode> with one of four modes as described in the README.