Top Tips to Protect Your Privacy

To increase your privacy, spread the word about Amaca!

The more people use Amaca, the greater the number of random keyphrases generated and also the greater number of encrypted messages. This disipates the risk of you being targeted for a potential attack, and discourages attacks by making them considerably less cost-effective.

When going to the Amaca website, make sure it's the right location: https://amaca.tech

If you are not careful about this, you could end up at a fake site that matches the look and feel of Amaca. Once at the fake site, your sensitive information is in jeopardy, because they could inject code to reveal every character you type on your screen, including your keyphrases and unencrypted messages. Be cautious!

Don’t use public wi-fi or your office wi-fi to connect to Amaca.

Public wi-fi communications are not encrypted. Office wi-fi could be monitored, especially if you work for a large corporation or organization with a sophisticated IT department. Instead, use your phone’s cellular data connection, or your secure Internet connection at home, or at another secure location that you trust.

Don’t use company or public-use computers to connect to Amaca.

Assume that they have tracking software.

Beware of potentially virus- and malware-infected devices when connecting to Amaca.

This would include being aware of your own computers or devices, or those belonging to friends or co-workers. Some signs of virus or malware infection are: poor performance, application crashes, and computer freezes.

Don't bookend your keyphrases with spaces.

But no worries. Even if you add a space at the beginning and/or end of your keyphrase by mistake, Amaca will shave them off automatically for consistency and security.

But feel free to use spaces inside your keyphrases.

Using spaces to separate words in your keyphrase make them more memorable to you, and harder to crack. And that's great!

Create keyphrases that use as many different characters as possible.

With keyphrases, it's acceptable—and encouraged— to use emojis, symbols, and characters in foreign languages and writing systems. The more character-diverse your keyphrase is, the stronger it will be. Just make sure that your keyphrase remains memorable to you and your intended recipient(s).

Also, feel free to include in your keyphrases made-up words and words in foreign languages.

They will make your keyphrase stronger and harder to guess by unwanted 3rd parties. Again, just make sure that your keyphrase remains memorable to you and your intended recipient(s).

Avoid always using the same keyphrases.

If you do, and an unwanted 3rd party learns your keyphrase, all the messages encrypted with it will be decipherable. Instead...

Use keyphrase protocols to generate, remember, and share multiple keyphrases.

Learn more here: CREATING a Keyphrase Protocol  |  SHARING a Keyphrase Protocol

Make your keyphrases at least 25 characters long.

Amaca requires a minimum length of 15 characters. However, we suggest creating keyphrases at least 25 characters long. Make them as lengthy as you want, just make sure they remain memorable and manageable.

After encrypting text, use Amaca’s “Copy” button to copy the content to your clipboard or — better yet — "Download" to save it as a TXT file.

"Copy" ensures that the entirety of the text is cleanly and quickly copied to the clipboard. "Download" saves the text as a TXT file. Saving the text this way is the safest way to ensure the integrity of your encrypted text.

To maximize your privacy, use a privacy-friendly web browser.

Amaca is compatible with all major web browsers. However, to maximize your privacy, we strongly recommend you use one or more of the following privacy-friendly web browsers for all your web browsing:

Brave | DuckDuckGo | Firefox | Firefox Focus | Safari | Tor | Vivaldi

If Amaca is not working correctly with your privacy-friendly browser, check the settings.

Amaca DOES NOT use persistent (activity tracking) cookies. However, for your convenience, Amaca uses session cookies — temporary cookies that are NOT installed in your device and DON'T track your activity. Session cookies disappear once you end your session and close your browser. Some privacy-friendly browsers allow session cookies by default, but others don’t. If Amaca is not working correctly with your privacy-friendly browser, make sure to change the settings so “session cookies” (and ONLY session cookies) are enabled while using Amaca. Finally, Amaca uses Javascript, so make sure to allow scripts.