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[Giveaway] gKrypt Uses GPU To Perform Super Quick File Encryption Operations

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When dealing with sensitive data, you may feel satisfied by locking the relevant files and folders using strong password keys, but this measure fails to serve the purpose against the tide of file unlocking tools available across the web. Popular encryption tools like TrueCrypt and Bitlocker address this concern by encrypting files, folders and disk drives, but the advanced interface and the steep learning curve discourage the novice users from taking such risks. gKrypt provides a unique approach to encrypt and decrypt files, instantly. It does so by preferring GPU (NVIDIA, AMD supported) over CPU for encryption operation, yielding super fast speed coupled with AES encryption techniques to secure your data for the better. Read More

FileWall Brings Real-Time (On-The-Fly) Folder Encryption In Windows

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We always put great emphasis on data protection. As today, we are living in an era where everything's digital, including our credentials and other important files - any unintended hands can easily misuse such information, if insufficiently protected. Thankfully, PCs now have various data security software that keep everything in check and well protected from intruders. Windows 7 alone is quite robust in protecting our files, but if you were looking for a file encryption tool that is not so easy to crack, then what you probably need is FileWall. It is an encryption application that can quickly encrypt and decrypt files stored in your hard drive. It integrates into the Windows Explorer right-click context menu for instant access and uses AES-128 bit encryption as the default encryption algorithm. It supports real-time encryption on folders which allows the data to be encrypted before being written to the disk. That means that no one will be able to access the existing and newly created documents inside a folder without entering the password. Read past the jump for more details. Read More

Create, Edit And Encrypt Text Documents Using crypTN

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If you require working on a shared computer at office or home and need to save TXT  files securely, then it might be a good idea to use crypTN. It is an open source application which provides the complete functionality of Windows Notepad with additional utility to encrypt and password protect text files. crypTN is primarily a text encryption tool which uses the AES 256-bit encryption algorithm. You can use cryptTN when you want to create secured text documents and keep them from prying eyes. For example, you may have written and saved a classified project details file at office. To avoid this information from being copied by your co-worker, you can simple open the document using crypTN and encrypt it. Read More

Encrypting Ubuntu One Files With Ubuntu One Encrypt / Decrypt

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Ubuntu One is a web service similar to Dropbox which comes pre-installed with the Ubuntu operating system. It allows users to store and sync files between computers and mobile devices using it's cloud storage service. We told you how to encrypt Dropbox in Ubuntu using ENCFS. This time we have Ubuntu One Encrypt/Decrypt which is a script for encrypting and decrypting Ubuntu One data before uploading it. According to the developer, he made this script keeping in view the weak security provided by Ubuntu One (reminds us of Dropbox), which does not provide encryption for uploaded data from your Ubuntu computer to the cloud. Read More

Create Encrypted Folders In Ubuntu With Cryptkeeper

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Cryptkeeper is a system tray applet for Linux which is meant to provide you with simplified options for creating hidden encrypted directories. You can save your important data in these password protected and encypted directories and access it anytime by displaying the hidden folder from the system tray options. Cryptkeeper can also be used to import ENCFS files, which is the same software which we used to create an encrypted folder in Dropbox. Read More

SafeHouse Explorer Creates Hidden Private Virtual Drive To Protect Files

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File enencryption utilities are a must have for any computer user worried about data security. SafeHouse Explorer is free encryption software which can help protect your confidential files. It has a both free and paid version. The former has enough feature rich options to keep your data secure and protected. It creates a virtual drive in which you can save data via drag & drop or by simple copy & paste method. The virtual volume remains invisible unless you open SafeHouse Explorer and enter your password. This provides the option to hide, encrypt, password protect and lock your important files. Read More

SecurStick – Encrypt USB stick data without administrator privileges

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Data encryption tools like TrueCrypt, BestCrypt or FreeOTFE are perfectly well suited for encryption of USB drives or putting encrypted container files on USB sticks. Unfortunately, this does not guarantee a safe and completely portable storage facility. The problem lies with the necessary evil of a driver that needs to be installed in order to mount the encrypted files (or partitions) on the system. If one does not have administrator privileges on the operating system, the only way to be able to use an encrypted volume is to ask an administrator to pre-install the software... on every single computer you might just want to use your encrypted data. Well, not anymore. Read More

Wave Cipher – A Unique Way To Encrypt & Protect Your Files

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The security of data is vital now-a-days, common tools for securing data use the password protection mechanism. Such a tool simply sets a password on the specific data file, so that a password is required in order to access the data file . But in this way, everyone gets the idea that it is a password protected file. WAVE Cipher is a small and easy to use tool that enables you to encipher and password-protect any file into a harmless looking WAV file. You can also decipher the file back to its original form. Thus your important data file is converted into a wav file and if some one tries to open it, he/she will only listen to some noise. Read More

How To Compress And Password Protect Files In Windows XP

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Do you want to encrypt your files without installing a third party application? Windows XP has a native support for file compression and decompression formally known as Compress Files and Folders which is a basic feature that allows us to zip files of any format so that  Windows Explorer is able to open these files without any need of third party applications. Besides the compression and decompression, it also allows us to password protect those files. In Windows Explorer the zip files are treated as any other normal folder allowing you to drag and drop new files or copy the content.

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