Oversec Help

Buttons

Hide-Button

Tap this button to temporarily hide all the Oversec overlays.

Tap again at the same position (while this and all other buttons are hidden) to un-hide!

This button also functions as a panic button: Long-tap it to enter Panic Mode

Double-tapping this button brings up the per-app configuration page where you can configure various aspects of how Oversec works in conjunction with the current app.

Note: This button can be dragged and placed anywhere on the screen.

Encrypt-Button

Tap this button to encrypt the entered text. After the text has been encrypted, this button automatically disappears. So if you place this button over the underlying app's "send" or "save" button, you can make sure that you do not accidentally send or save plain text.

If you have not encrypted anything yet in this app, tapping this button will bring up a screen to enter or modify the encryption params. Next time you tap this button, those params will be used and the encryption will happen instantly. If you still want to change the encryption params, long-tap on this button to forcefully bring up the encryption-params screen.

Hint: Double-tapping this button will hide it for a short time, so that the underlying app's buttons can be tapped. So if the Encrypt-Button is positioned right above the underlying app's send button, you can triple tap at this position to send an unencrypted message!

Note: This button can be dragged and placed around the input field.

Compose-Button

This button lets you enter text in a separate screen and then place the encrypted text into the clipboard. You can then paste the text from the clipboard into input fields that are otherwise not accessible by Oversec. (Example: Body of an email message in "Inbox by Gmail") Tap this button to open the input screen.

After you have entered the text, tap the button in this screen. The entered text gets encrypted and is placed into the clipboard,

Now long-tap on an input field and then select "PASTE" to paste the encrypted text from the clipboard into the input field.

Note: This button can be dragged and placed anywhere on the screen.

Note: This button is not enabled by default. Click the config button to open the per-app configuration page where you can enable the compose button.

Decrypt-/Clear Button

This button changes its icon and function depending on the text in the input field:

There is encrypted text in the input field. Tap this button to decrypt it and put the plain text back into the input field.

Note: This functionality is not available on Android Kitkat for security reasons!

There is some text in the input field. Tapping this button clears all text.

Note: This button can be dragged and placed around the input field.

Info-Button

Tap this button to enter info mode.

While in info mode, there will be a smaller version of this button next to every encrypted text found on the screen. Tap on of the small info button to show detailed encryption information about this text.

While in info-mode, this button shows like above. Tap it to leave info mode.

Note: This button can be dragged and placed anywhere on the screen.

Note: This button is not enabled by default. Click the config button to open the per-app configuration page where you can enable the info button.

*Note: Long-tapping the Info-Button brings up the per-app configuration page (see below). You can thus enable the info button and disable the config button in the per-app configuration page and still have access to the app config by long-tapping the info button.

Config-Button

Tapping this button brings up the per-app configuration page where you can configure various aspects of how Oversec works in conjunction with the current app.

Note: This button can be dragged and placed anywhere on the screen.

Camera-Button

By tapping this button you can take and send an encrypted photo.

This button is only available for apps that support sending of images. You can choose if you want to see or hide this button in the per-app configuration page

Note: This button can be dragged and placed anywhere on the screen.