Is there a way to password protect HTML pages without using a server side language?

Question

I have a series of interlinked web pages, and I want to restrict access to these pages by asking the user to provide a login and password. However, my hosting account curren

Answer 1

Below is a working solution to this problem that uses encryption, which I implemented myself.

A few users here have suggested using an encryption-based approach to client-side password protection. I needed this functionality too, so I implemented it myself. The password is hashed using PBKDF2 and then used to encrypt the page with AES256.

The tool is hosted here:

https://www.maxlaumeister.com/pagecrypt/

with source code available here:

https://github.com/MaxLaumeister/pagecrypt

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Description of the project, from the project page:

PageCrypt - Password Protect HTML

This tool lets you securely password-protect an HTML file. Unlike other password-protection tools, this tool:

1. Has no server-side components (this tool and its password-protected pages run entirely in javascript).

2. Uses strong encryption, so the password-protection cannot be bypassed.

All you need to do is choose an HTML file and a password, and your page will be password-protected.