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Storing documents in the so-called "cloud" and collaborating on them in real-time is an expected feature of today's tech platforms. However, convenience and productivity come at the cost of privacy. In most cases, the services that store documents and enable real-time editing also gain access to the data in order to mine it for their own profit.

CryptPad offers an alternative online office suite that is end-to-end encrypted and fully open-source. It includes all the applications and tools for productive collaboration: text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forms, kanban boards and more. All data is encrypted/decrypted in the browser, which means no readable data ever leaves the user's device.

In this talk I will present CryptPad's features and talk about how the project has been developed to date. I hope to encourage discussion with the GNU Health audience about leveraging existing CryptPad features in a healthcare context, and about which future developments would be needed in this area.