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About CryptYak

CryptYak is a small toolkit for moving things between computers privately. It does two jobs: Clipvault, a short-lived tape of text and files your own devices share behind a five-character code, and a peer-to-peer chat. It ties them together with a single idea: your browser scrambles your data before it leaves you, so what I store is unreadable without your code or your link.

There are no accounts to create, no analytics, no third-party trackers, no ads. The page you load is exactly the page I serve. Read how it works for the friendly tour.

License

CryptYak is closed source.

Code

Inspect the JavaScript and watch the network in your browser. Every claim on this page is verifiable from the wire.

Contact

Bug reports and feature requests go through a private channel: Contact CA3LE.

Heritage

The original idea came about in 2018 when a friend and I were on the phone. We just wanted to quickly and privately share ideas, but we really trusted nothing out there. CryptYak was just an idea, one that web frameworks hadn't caught up to yet. In 2021 I released a demo but it really wasn't ready; I toyed with it and shelved it. This version is a from-scratch rebuild on a modern stack. The yak logo and favicon set are the only things that survived the rewrite.

Who am I?

My name is Damon, aka CA3LE. I created TestMy.net in 2001, a successor to an earlier popular internet speed test I started in 1996 (it outgrew my teenage abilities). I've been building the internet since the beginning. This is a project I built for myself and friends; use it or don't. I'm not opening the source because that opens a can of worms I don't care to deal with. This is a solid piece of software without being open source. If you're a researcher, dig in. Every claim is verifiable.

Promise

I never sell or share what little I can see. I never run analytics or third-party JavaScript. I am transparent about how it works and honest about the limits.

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