Welcome to PassLok

If you have three minutes to spare, you may want to begin by watching this video, which explains the essential concepts in a lighthearted way.

So, the first thing you need to do is to come up with a strong secret Key, which will give you access to most of the functions. It will never be stored anywhere within the app. Please enter your Key in the box below.

As you type your Key, a text above it will tell you its strength based on simple rules. Make sure to use $ymbol$, numb3rs, caPiTals, unusual words and mispel ingss. Initial capitals and numbers at start and end will be ignored for the strength score. To display the Key, check Show.

This is where the score will appear



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Please take your time to come up with a strong Key. PassLok compensates for weak Keys by adding computations. If your Key strength is worse than Medium, PassLok will be very slow.

You will never give this Key to anyone. Instead, you will give them a Lock matching your Key. The Lock is made from the Key, but it is impossible to retrieve a Key from its matching Lock. A Lock consists of a series of 87 random-looking characters, bracketed by "PL17lok" tags.

When you click the Make Lock button above, this screen will close and the Lock matching your Key will appear in PassLok's main screen, from where you can copy it, email it, text it, and even post it on PassLok's general directory.

To lock a message so it turns into unreadable gibberish, the sender inputs the plain message in PassLok's main screen, then clicks Locks to get to the Locks screen, and puts the recipient's Lock in the big box there. Back at the main screen, the message is locked when the sender clicks Lock/Unl. The recipient unlocks the locked message by putting it in the main box and clicking Lock/Unl.

The main screen, like all other screens in PassLok, has a Help button that will give you complete instructions on how to do things.

Please go ahead and write your secret Key in the box, then click the Make Lock button.

Enter the Hidden Message


Enter the Decoy Password

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Enter the Decoy Password

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The Hidden message will appear on the main screen

Enter the total number of parts (between 2 and 255)


And the number of parts needed to retrieve the item