URSA Privacy Firefox

URSA Privacy

By: F. Ruiz
High strength symmetric encryption for your favorite email, plus real-time secure chat

Features & Capabilities

URSA sits near your tray bar to provide secure and easy symmetric encryption of text, images, and files. This is the process:

  1. Click the bear icon to load URSA into a new tab.
  2. Type the secret key into the top box. The recipient must know this key.
  3. Type your message, possibly containing rich formatting, images, and even files into the large box, then click Encrypt.

The recipient will decrypt the encrypted message, which can be sent by email or some other means without fear of its being decrypted, by typing the same key, pasting the encrypted message, and clicking Decrypt.

If you feel really paranoid, URSA can encrypt into a cover image, so that it cannot be detected that anything is there. The image looks the same after the secret data have been injected.

URSA can also disguise its output so it appears to be normal text.

If you find yourself exchanging frequent messages with someone, you can switch into real-time chat, which can include text, files, audio, and even video!

URSA's main encryption algorithm is XSalsa20, included within the NaCl encryption library. This algorithm has extensively been vetted by experts for over ten years without flaws being found. There are also two experimental algorithms: Pad, which uses a large piece of text (from a book, or a webpage) as key and is theoretically unbreakable, and Human, which can be performed by hand if necessary.

URSA is fully compatible with PassLok Privacy, its larger sibling, also in this Web store. PassLok adds several asymmetric encryption modes, as well as secret splitting and digital signatures. There is also a web app at https://passlok.com/ursa

You can check the integrity of the web version of URSA with this data: Current version of URSA is: 4.3

Made on 11/16/24

Main source: https://passlok.com/ursa

SHA256 string for web source (single html file):

62ac-893d-a6df-edfc-dbd9-a849-5404-5b13-6701-d0da-87c2-8d0b-bc44-5153-742b-96b0

See the author reading this: https://youtu.be/nzTyfvgrHgc

User Growth & Download Statistics

Manifest V3 Add-on
By:
F. Ruiz
Daily users:
1
Version:
4.3 Last updated: 2024-12-04
Version code:
5855691
Creation date:
2017-11-17
Risk:
Very low risk impact Moderate risk likelihood
Size:
157.91KB
Email:
fr*****@gmail.com
URLs:
Website
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Firefox Add-ons Store
Data ingested on:
2026-06-18
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Contact the developer

Chrome-Stats does not own this Firefox add-on. Please use these information below to contact the Firefox add-on developer.
Developed by:
F. Ruiz
Firefox Add-ons Store
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/ursa-privacy/
Email:
fr*****@gmail.com
Website:
http://ursa-app.weebly.com

Is URSA Privacy Safe?

Risk impact
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URSA Privacy does not require any sensitive permissions.

Risk impact analysis details
  • Low This permission has no access or impact on the user's system or data, thus carrying no risk.
Risk likelihood
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URSA Privacy is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

Risk likelihood analysis details
  • High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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