How to use Secret! 2.5 



Installation and Upgrade

Secret! runs on all currently available organizers of the Palm Computing
(R) platform.  Simply install secret.prc with the Palm install tool
instapp.exe. 

If you upgrade from a previous version, don't remove Secret! before you
install the new version. This way your data and registration code will
be retained. If you use a FlashROM utility, make sure you move Secret! to
RAM before installing a new version. 

If you have an original Pilot 1000 or Pilot 5000 with PalmOS 1.0, please
install the  file secret-palmos10.prc instead. 

Password

Everything you store in Secret! is encrypted with a single master password
of your choice. Whenever you start  Secret! you are presented with an
on-screen keyboard to enter your password.  This password is used to
decrypt your data and only someone knowing this password can access your
data. No back doors, no hidden weakness! If you forget your password,
you will have to erase and re-install Secret! as  there's absolutely no
way to open your data without knowing the password. 

At the very first start of Secret! you will have to select a New
password. To protect against typos, you must enter the new password
twice. 

The password can be up to 16 characters long. You can use both
graffiti and one of the two convenient on-screen keyboards to enter the
password. The characters you enter appear as asterix (*) in the input
field. If you want to use a number (PIN) you can choose to have the
large numeric keypad come up as default (see Options below). 

Data

The Secret! data screen has the well-known MemoPad style.  You can store
anything you like in Secret!, e.g. credit card information, accounts,
on-line passwords, transaction numbers, one-time passwords and everything
else that needs to be kept Secret! We've even heard of people storing
their diary or birthday present lists in Secret! 

To avoid accidental changes to very sensitive data you can set  the
read-only option by tapping on the Palm Menu button and choosing
Option->Toggle readonly. 

In the registered version you can easily switch the display font by
using the buttons in the lower part of the screen.  

You can search in Secret! by tapping on the Palm Find button. Search
is  not case-sensitive and will find arbitrary sub-strings. Wildcards
(*,?) are not supported. Of course, searching Secret! data only works
while you're inside Secret! because all data is encrypted every time
you leave Secret! 

 

Categories



As you store more and more text in Secret!, you may want to structure
the data in categories. A single category is comparable to one memopad
record and  may contain up to 6000 characters. Each category can be
independently  set to read-only or TAN mode (see below). 

Categories can easily be managed in the "Edit categories" screen,
available from the category pull down menu. In contrast to the standard
Palm applications, Secret! supports an unlimited number of categories. 

You can either arrange categories in an arbitrary order (using the
up/down arrow buttons) or select an alphabetically sort order. If you
use  Secret! Desktop you may want to select the alphabetical sort order
to match the desktop order. 



Changing your password

To change your password, simply tap on the Palm Menu button, then choose
Option->Change password. You will get the Enter new password screen. To
protect against typos, you have to enter the password twice. To cancel
the password change, simply switch to another application. 

If you use Secret! Desktop, please hotsync before and after changing the
password. The double hotsync will ensure that all data is re-encrypted
with the new password and the  same on the desktop and on your Palm. If
you forgot to hotsync before changing the password and have modified
desktop data, you may end up with a mix of old and new encrypted
data. Secret! will detect categories encrypted  with an old password
and will ask you to provide the old password to convert them. 



Options

To configure various settings of Secret! tap on the Palm Menu button,
then choose Option->Preferences. 

You can have Secret! automatically close the text screen after a certain
time of inactivity. This works in addition to the built-in auto-close
at power-off. 

If your password consists only of digits you can choose to start
Secret! always with the Digits screen. Note that this makes it easier
for someone trying to break your password because he can assume that
you use only digits. 

Secret! can open your text screen automatically when you have completed
your password. Note that this makes it slightly easier to guess your
password because one does not need to know the length of the password. 

To increase security, you can configure Secret! to clear the clipboard
after pasting text. Note that this may not work if you have third-party
clipboard hacks installed. 

If you've installed PadlockHack by Daniel McCarty you can enable
Secret! to enter the password with the hardware keys. 

You can change the icon and title of Secret! that is displayed in the
Launcher. The icon title must not be empty. This will only affect the
display in the Launcher and in the Info and Delete dialogs. It does
not change the database name. Title and icon are changed by patching
the program. If you have Secret! stored in FlashROM, this feature will
not be available. This feature may not work if you use a third-party
launcher that caches application information. 

Backup

By its very nature, data stored in Secret! is very important to you. If
you use Secret! Desktop the provided conduit will store a synchronized
copy on your desktop in the directory. \palm\<username>\secret. 

If you do not use Secret! Desktop, the standard system conduit
will back up all the Secret! data as all other third-party data to
\palm\<username>\backup\secret2.pdb. Please make sure to have hotsync
configured to System: Handheld overwrites Desktop (which is the default)
to activate this standard backup functionality. 

If you had to hard reset your device or otherwise lost your  Secret! data
simply install the file secret2.pdb together with Secret! to restore
the last backup. 

It's a good idea to make additional backup copies of the secret directory
or the file secret2.pdb, respectively.  

TAN mode



Are you into on-line banking? Do you use transaction numbers (TANs)  or
other one-time passwords for secure authorization? Secret! has a special
built-in TAN mode that makes usage of TANs easier than ever. Enter your
list of TANs into a standard  category, then switch to TAN mode using the
menu Option->Set TAN mode. Now you can use the TANs one-at-a-time. If a
TAN is used, tap on the Delete button and the number will be erased from
the list. To prevent accidental changes, new TANs can only be entered
in standard mode.  



Registration

Secret! is shareware. You get a fully functional evaluation copy. If you
use the program on a regular basis please register Secret! for just US$
19 (US$ 35 with Secret! Desktop) at PalmGear H.Q., www.palmgear.com. 

Registered users are entitled to support  and free upgrades. Please mail
us at sales@linkesoft.com if you have any questions regarding registration
or volume discounts. 

Secret! is (C) LinkeSoft 1998-2000. You can find  further information,
updates and many PalmPilot programs at our web site linkesoft.com. If
you have any questions or suggestions please feel free to email us at
info@linkesoft.com. 

(C) LinkeSoft  03-Jul-2000
Copyright (c) 1998-2000 LinkeSOFT GmbH, Berlin, Germany

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