Encrypt web pages on MobileMe

January 28th, 2009

I used blowfish encryption to password protect and encrypt html files on my MobileMe site.

The usual .htaccess and .htpasswd combination didn’t work with my MobileMe hosting, so I Googled for an alternative.

WARNING: This method uses javascript to decrypt blowfish’d html content which is good enough for hiding a portfolio from Google’s indexing spiders and probably enough to stop most employers from knowing about your moonlighting, BUT I don’t recommend this for protecting any ultra-sensitive data.

The idea came from this site.

You simply generate your html page, then copy and paste it into their widget, supply a password and it generates the encrypted html for you in a nicely wrapped html file plus a javascript file for doing the authentication and decrypting.

Here’s my portfolio page’s login (In Japanese):

Leon Stafford | Portfolio