Lockr vs WP jCryption Security

API & ENCRYPTION KEY MANAGEMENT FOR WORDPRESS Lockr is the first hosted secrets management solution for WordPress, providing an affordable solution for all sites to properly manage site secrets such as API and encryption keys used by their plugins. Lockr’s offsite key management solution protects against critical vulnerabilities, delivers best-practice security to help sites comply with many industry regulations, and provides a Defense in Depth approach to securing your data. Lockr also provides AES-256 encryption to your custom plugins in a seamless manner to protect data at rest in your site. And best of all, even though it delivers enterprise-grade key management, you can try it for 2 weeks free! Learn more at http://www.lockr.io. Lockr Features: Easy to configure and setup in WordPress Simple UI to override any option stored by plugins Safe and Secure offsite key storage Works with any API and encryption key Built-in AES-256 Encryption functions to secure data in your site 99.9% uptime guarantee (SLA Available for Enterprise Customers) Regular Backups Multiple Region Redundancy Backed by Townsend Security’s FIPS 140-2 compliant key manager, your keys are secured to industry standards. Lockr is the first key management service for WordPress. More and more plugins are leveraging 3rd party APIs. To securely access these APIs, a token, secret key, or password is necessary. Until now, these highly sensitive secrets were stored right in your database. We’ve seen a major need to secure sensitive data and communications by removing these API keys from your database, encrypting them, and storing safely in an offsite key vault. This limits the damage that could be done if your site is compromised or a developer has a local copy of your database. Lockr makes key management easy. Just install the plugin for WordPress, configure your account and begin securely storing your keys. Lockr provides patches for the major plugins used by hundreds of thousands of sites and with WP-CLI a single command will make sure your plugins use Lockr. Who is Lockr for? Lockr is available for WordPress sites of all sizes. Easy to use for the novice site owner and advanced enough for the expert developer, Lockr secures web transactions and data at rest by protecting API and encryption keys. For Site Builders: fill out a single registration form and you’re set. To use with other plugins, look for those that have Lockr available or use our patch library to update your favorite plugin to use Lockr. For Developers: Lockr provides an easy to use framework to “get and set” keys from your custom plugin. Additionally, Lockr provides a simple to use yet strong AES-256 encryption function, ensuring your data is encrypted according to industry best-practices and securely stored. Using Lockr helps keep the developer safe, by removing the sensitive passwords and key secrets from the code and database, following security best practices should a site be compromised. Is Lockr Safe? Lockr can secure any API key, secret key, and other types of credentials. Once enabled in WordPress, keys entered are encrypted, then sent over to the Lockr system and removed from the code repository and database. This encryption teamed with hosting provider based authentication prevents your key from being used outside your website. Lockr also manages keys on a “per environment” basis which helps eliminate the potential of keys being shared from production to development environments. No longer will you have to worry about sending a notification from development to your production users, or having production data decrypted in development environments. Leveraging proven enterprise-grade key management technology from Townsend Security, Lockr’s offsite key management delivers best-practice security to protect against critical vulnerabilities and help sites meet PCI DSS, HIPAA and other security requirements and regulations. This plugin is designed, written and maintained by experts in security, to the end user it is easy to use and understand. Let Lockr handle the difficult part of securing your site, so you can focus on delivering the best experience possible to your users.

The plugin increases security of a site in case it has no SSL certificate, useful for owners of small sites who want to secure their passwords and other posted data but don’t want to buy SSL certificate for each domain and subdomain: it protects from sniffering the most important data such as passwords when they are being sent from forms of your site to the server. When the form served by the plugin is submitted all input data are being joined into a string, then this string is being encrypted with AES algorythm by disposable key and only encrypred string will be sent. A browser encrypts the disposable key in javascript by the RSA public key and sends it to the server; then the server decrypts it with the RSA private key and then use it to decrypt the posted data with AES. Translations included: Ukrainian, Russian, German and Brazilian Portuguese. I just adapted usage in WordPress the jCryption jQuery plugin, v. 3.1.0. Please check www.jcryption.org to learn how jCryption works.