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Etherpad and Cryptpad are both web-office suites

etherpad focuses on the fact that you can collaborate in it

Cryptpad is onlyoffice in web

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Cryptpad:

  • Full-on google docs / office365 / libreoffice type replacement with collaboration.
  • E2EE
  • The complexity means it doesn't work well on mobile, takes a while to load on a slow connection, more frequent bugs. (3.5 MiB page transfer)
  • Self-hosting is complicated.

Etherpad:

  • A competent collaborative rich-text editor. Doesn't do spreadsheets or presentations or [...].
  • Not E2EE (you need to trust that the server a bit more).
  • Lightweight, works on slower connections, works alright on mobile. (1.7 MiB page transfer)
  • Self-hosting quite simple.

PrivateBin:

  • Super-simple plain-text/markdown pastebin. No editing possible once saved.
  • E2EE
  • Very small. Works fine on slow connections and mobile. (0.2 MiB page transfer)
  • Self-hosting very simple.
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Also thanks w/ privatebin, didnt need it but thanks ๐Ÿ‘

I think im gonna do cryptpad because it is e2ee

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

To be clear though: by E2EE here I mean browser-side encryption with zero-knowledge on the server side.

Etherpad is still encrypted in transit with https; only the server can snoop.

Cryptpad and other web-based E2EE services can still be completely compromised server-side by serving malicious code to the browser, and practically the user would never know.

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