Gulosh

Working with text on a computer might mean you need to keep your documents safe from prying eyes. There are several practices in this regard, especially if multiple individuals use the same account. As such, Gulosh wants to help you add extra security to your documents through a powerful encryption algorithm.

Before you can take the application for a spin, you need to make sure that your PC is fitted with Java Runtime Environment. This means that you can use the program on other operating systems than Windows. Since no setup is involved, Gulosh can easily be carried around on a thumb drive along with encrypted documents for maximum security.

You might end up scratching your head for a while, especially since the window is composed of a large text canvas, and a simple menu bar. Text can be added in several methods, with a default one to paste, or manually write it down. However, before you can load any other kind of file, you need to set the encryption key.

Setting the key values is either done manually, or letting the application generate a key file. Manual input means writing down a password-like string, which is best remembered to be able to recover encrypted content later on. Creatin a key file is done using a full key, or limiting to a custom size specification.

You can load almost any kind of ASCII text document, but this hardly means you’re able to work with TXT or RTF. Saving is done under the application’s own format. Every time you run the program you need to set a key value, which needs to be an existing one in case you aim to decrypt text files.

Gulosh is a pretty straightforward method of encrypting your text files. It can take a bit of accommodation time, but usage isn’t really rocket science. Since it’s portable, it offers the flexibility and security you need so that you always carry the program and encrypted documents with you.