# Ciphercat

> This add-on has been designed to enable fast and easy cryptography for everyone, everywhere. It is based on Local PGP and extends its functionality with automatic encryption detection.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/ciphercat](https://chrome-stats.com/d/ciphercat)

## Overview

- **ID:** `ciphercat`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** burrizza
- **Category:** privacy-security,social-communication,other
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Version:** 0.1.1
- **Last updated:** 2023-03-04
- **First published:** 2023-03-03
- **Size:** 204 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-15
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/ciphercat/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/burrizza/Ciphercat](https://github.com/burrizza/Ciphercat)

## Description

Ciphercat is a Firefox add-on based on Local PGP and OpenPGP.js, designed to enable fast and easy cryptography for everyone. It supports generating and managing OpenPGP keys, clipboard encryption, and automatic encryption detection for platforms like Wordpress and Twitter.

## Rankings

- #113,517 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `downloads`
- `activeTab`
- `contextMenus`
- `notifications`
- `clipboardWrite`
- `clipboardRead`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows reading and modifying clipboard content, which can be sensitive, posing a moderate privacy risk.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/ciphercat)