CryptPad Blog

On October 31, 2014 the CryptPad project was first published, back then it was nothing more than a simple rich text pad and a horribly ugly front page.

6 Jul 2018

When CryptPad was first created, the only thing to load was the CryptPad code itself and the pad which you were editing. Recently edited pads were remembered in the browser's localStorage which was not portable between computers but allowed some recent history to be kept.

22 Jun 2018

CryptPad was designed with a view that privacy should be default and cryptography should be invisible. In order to do this, we made use of the web-app model so people could just go to cryptpad.fr and immediately begin using the app, no installation necessary. However, this model has a known flaw...

15 Jun 2018

Approximately one year ago, we published an article about our intention to follow a biweekly release schedule. Since then, we've thought of every second Tuesday as release day.

23 Feb 2018

CryptPad version 1.14 (Codename Ouroboros) has been released and the most exciting new feature is one you cannot even see.

30 Aug 2017