Encryption

With cybercrime on the rise and hacking stories filling the news, file encryption software has never been more important. Luckily, FileHippo is home to the best encryption software, packed with great features to keep your data secure. Choose from many great titles including Folder Lock, TrueCrypt, and Anvi Folder Locker. These data encryption solutions protect files, folders and drives, encrypt your important files on-the-fly, backup files in real-time, protect portable drives, plus they can shred files and drives, clean history, and more! Explore our range of free file encryption software today and protect your data the smart way.

MyWinLocker
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GiliSoft CD DVD Encryption
Trial version
If you keep your backup data or personal files on DVDs or CDs, then it is always a good idea to ensure the data is protected with either a password or some form of data encryption. GiliSoft CD/DVD Encryption is a simple tool that lets you create encrypted CDs or DVDs by adding password protection to them during the burning process. Key Features include: Fully encrypt your CDs & DVDs Password protect CDs and DVDs Secure Your CD/DVD data GiliSoft CD/DVD Encryption has been designed to work alongside your current CD/DVD burning software. It does not require a specific set-up process and you can begin encrypting your data in a few clicks. In fact, to get started you simply need to click on the “Enable burning encryption’ option, located in the system tray icon. When you need to view the data on your encrypted discs, just navigate to the app and hit the “Decrypt encrypted disc” button and it will decrypt the disc. Overall, GiliSoft CD/DVD Encryption gives you a reliable way to create encrypted discs. It is lightweight, it has a small footprint and is very simple to use.
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Perfecto Encryptor
Trial version
Perfecto Encryptor is a fast and user-friendly tool to encrypt your data, keeping it safe and secure. It allows you to encrypt files and folders with a choice of four encryption algorithms, and even includes a password manager. Perfecto Encryptor is quick to install and its user-friendly interface makes it easy to use, even if you haven't had any previous experience in encrypting files and folders. Simply choose your file or folder, select a destination, and click the button to encrypt or decrypt your data. You can also choose to delete the original file or folder when it is encrypted, so you know your data is secure. Key features include: File and folder encryption. Password manager. 4 encryption algorithms. Privacy protection. Compression encrypted files. Perfecto Encryptor allows you to choose from four encryption algorithms, AES, Triple DES, DES and RC2, all of which are explained in detail, so you can select the right option for you. Your encrypted files can only be decrypted by you, so you can be sure that your data is safe and secure. Perfecto Encryptor includes a useful password manager to store and keep track of passwords for all your encrypted data. When encrypting a file or folder, you have the option to automatically save the password in the program. Alternatively, you can also have the password emailed to you, so you can choose to store it elsewhere if you prefer. Overall, Perfecto Encryptor is a simple tool to secure your data and manage passwords. It has a generous selection of encryption types and allows you to secure the files and folders you select. You can also decrypt files and folders within the program. It offers a 14-day limited free trial, so you can decide whether you want to upgrade to the unlimited plan and access all features. Looking to keep your data secure? Check out the full range of encryption software on FileHippo.
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BCArchive
Free
BCArchive: Compress data in encrypted, password-protected archives
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GiliSoft Secure Disc Creator
Trial version
GiliSoft Secure Disc Creator is a CD/DVD encryption app that can create encrypted image files, virtual discs and can burn encrypted CD/DVDs. Key Features include: Create Encrypted CD and DVD. Create Encrypted ISO Image File. Password Protect CD & DVD. Sector-based Encryption. Automatic Transparent Encryption. Hide Files and Folders on CD & DVD. Build-in CD & DVD Burne. Supports Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista or Windows 7. The app’s interface is based upon a familiar, standard explorer style, and most users will find no difficulty in navigating the software. The main window consists of a small drop down area, where you can choose the ‘Recorder’ (the DVD or CD drive) which will burn your images. If more than one drive is located on your system, you can select it from here. Underneath this, is the Disc Information area. This shows you what type of disc is present in the selected drive and its capacity. Next up, you need to add your content to the disc. This is done via the Add File button. When you have selected the files which you want to add to the secure disc, the field below can be populated with the name of the disc. There is also a pie chart that displays information regarding the size of the files added and the size of the burnable disc inserted into the recorder. Once you are happy with all the data, simply hit the Burn button located at the bottom of the window to start the session. Overall, GiliSoft Secure Disc Creator is lightweight, has a small footprint and has some good features. If you need a standard, bare bones tool that can create a secure data backup on CD or DVD, or create secure ISO image discs or self-expanding archives, then GiliSoft Secure Disc Creator maybe what you are looking for?
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CrococryptMirror Portable
Free
CrococryptMirror is a rather useful and easy to use portable encryption application tool. CrococryptMirror can easily encrypt your important and confidential directories with ease and mixes high grade encryption with simple but extremely effective processes. The software works by mirroring the content of the folders you want to encrypt into an encoded container, which can then only be decrypted by using the CrococryptMirror tool, which is password protected. As well as being very secure, this also means you can effectively hide encrypted folders and data in plain sight from prying eyes. Additionally, a ZIP compression for storage space optimization is used. Mirroring can either be done manually (on-demand) or by using the included sync service which detects directory changes on the fly. As you would expect from an an encryption tool, the encryption protocols are high end, using both AES and Twofish (256 bits, cascading) algorithms. The keyfile is secured by a password of your choice, using PKCS #5 (PBKDF2) with a SHA512/Whirlpool based HMAC using 100000 iterations and also AES and Twofish. Basically, that means it's secure. We would advise against using ‘Password.’ ‘12345’ or ‘[insert child’s name here]’ as your password though. You still need to have a good password to get the most out of Crococrypt. But, as an extra layer of security, your encrypted files can only be accessed using the Crococrypt software. For anyone who just read that and went, ‘huh, what?’ CrococryptMirror is very good at securing your data and is next to impossible to hack, crack and/or steal it. It’s also easy to use. Key Features: Copying and synchronizing of files/folders/directories (recursively) to encrypted folders. AES and Twofish (256 bits, cascading) encryption protocols. Encryption of filenames. Source folders can be stored in multiple destination containers at the same time (e.g., USB disk drive and Cloud storage). Master password protected. Network drives can be used as sources and destinations. Explorer view to read encrypted containers. This version of CrococryptMirror is portable, which means not only can you carry it around on a USB stick or on your phone, etc, it doesn’t need to be installed, and can be launched from whatever media you have it stored on. You can also store and use CrococryptMirror from a network drive or cloud storage. CrococryptMirror is also 100% Freeware without a catch, and there’s no registration, activation, trial period, or adverts and it has no limitations. It’s also really good at what it does; and by that we don’t mean it’s good because it’s free, we just mean it’s good.
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WINZAP
Trial version
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Hide Files
Trial version
Effortlessly Secure Your Files with Hide Files
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Base64 Tools
Trial version
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GiliSoft Private Disk
Trial version
Gilisoft Private Disk is a simple, yet powerful virtual disk encryption app, which can protect sensitive, personal data by encrypting it in files held on virtual disks. The advantage of saving files and folders on private, virtual disks is they are easily created and secured with the use of passwords. Virtual disks can also be managed in much the same manner as physical disks found on a hard drive, on your computer. Key Features include: Supports AES 256-bit encryption. Portable. Mount multiple disks simultaneously. Supports Dropbox encryption* Transparent encryption. GiliSoft Private Disk has a simple, intuitive interface that makes it easy to create private virtual drives in no time at all. To get started, simply select the size of the drive you need, and assign it a letter. Next, create a password to protect it and the app creates a private, virtual disk for you, which you can use to store your important personal data. If you use multiple private disks on your hard drive, you can switch between them in a few mouse clicks. You also have the ability to mount disks that have been hidden, and which cannot be accessed with other apps. In addition to supporting virtual drives on your disk, you can also create disks on USB drives, thereby providing you with increased portable security. Overall, GiliSoft Private Disk is a lightweight app that is easy to use, secure and robust with a few good features under the hood. *GiliSoft Private Disk can create an encrypted volume inside of your Dropbox (or other cloud storage).
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Gilisoft Privacy Protector
Trial version
GiliSoft Privacy Protector is a privacy suite, which can protect your data by hiding and locking files, or by cleaning up your Internet history and computer activities. You can also securely shred files & folders and create private areas on your system to work from. Key Features include: Hide pictures, videos, and documents. Password lock files and folders. Securely erase sensitive files. Erase surfing and operation history. Create private disks. GiliSoft Privacy Protector has a familiar, standard interface that users of all levels of expertise can navigate easily. The main window consists of a series of privacy tools, which are accessed via a left-side panel. The right-side panel provides details on secured files and folders. The top toolbar has a drop down menu under a series of tabs. The first tab has the main toolset under the heading Protection. From here you can choose to Hide Data, Lock Data, Deny Write, Safe Delete, Erase History, Change Password, or create a private disk. The other tabs are changing the language settings and the help section. Overall, GiliSoft Privacy Protector uses strong encryption algorithms to ensure your data is kept secure. You can hide files, folders, and even entire drives if you need to. The interface is simple to use and the app is both lightweight and consumes hardly any system resources. So, if you use a shared computer and want to keep your data secure and private, GiliSoft Privacy Protector is something you should check out.
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iBeesoft File Shredder
Trial version
iBeesoft File Shredder gives you an easy and secure way to erase data, permanently wipe disk or shred data, and irreversibly remove sensitive data. It provides powerful protection for all your important information and privacy. It can permanently erase any file from hard drive, USB drive, memory card, digital camera, SD card or other drive. It can permanently destroy & erase selected data, leaving no chance for data recovery, without affecting the service life of the device. Key Features include: File Shredder Permanently shred and delete unnecessary files from your computer beyond recovery. Hard Drive Wiper Non-Destructive wipe all existing and history data on HDD and SSD to improve the reading speed. Partition/Volume Wiper Wipe selected partition and volume to improve performance, don’t affect the reuse of them. External Drives Wiper Fast and safe wipe unwanted data form memory card, USB drives, SD card, digital camera etc. With iBeesoft FileShredder you can reclaim space by deleting unnecessary files and redundant files from HDD, SSD, Computers,USB, memory card, digital camera, external hard drive, etc. to improve computer or storage device performance. iBeesoft say that the File Shredder can shred all types of files such as pictures, documents, videos, audio, archives, emails, etc. and it supports FAT 12/16/32, exFAT, NTFS, NTFS5, ext2, ext3, HFS+
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GoAnywhere OpenPGP Studio
Free
GoAnywhere OpenPGP Studio: Simple and Secure Encryption Tool
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Crypt4Free
Free
Crypt4Free is a freeware version of AEP PRO (a powerful file encryption utility). Although it doesn't come with as many features as AEP PRO, Crypt4Free has all of the essential tools that most users will require in order to encrypt and decrypt files. Crypt4Free supports all kinds of various forms and medium, and it includes a zip and unzip utility. Crypt4Free provides two algorithms; DESX (128-bit) and Blowfish (448-bit), along with a ‘Quick Wipe’ file-erasing option. Now although the list of features and tools with Crypt4Free is meagre, it is however really easy to use. Key Features include: Full .ZIP support No "back door" access. Supports DESX (128-bit) and Blowfish (448-bit) encryption. Easy to use interface. Skin support . With Crypt4Free you have a number of basic security tools at your disposal, such as the file shredder and the user privacy tool; for erasing all internet traces, such as URL History, Favorites, Recycle Bin, Passwords etc.? Overall, Crypt4Free is neat little utility that supports various formats and medium. It has a .ZIP support and can encrypt data at DESX (128-bit) and Blowfish (448-bit). It is lightweight, easy to use and free. If you are in the market for a basic encryption tool, then Crypt4Free should be something that you check out.
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USB Copy Protection
Trial version
USB Copy Protection Explained
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Hideman
Free
Stay hidden, stay free
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Secret Disk
Free
How to Make Use of a Secret Disk
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Cloud Secure
Trial version
As more and more of data finds its way online and into cloud storage, keeping it all secure is becoming an ever-bigger issue. Cloud Secure is a clever little piece of software that enables you to protect your files and data stored on all your different cloud storage accounts, such as Dropbox, Google Drive & Box. Cloud Secure’s interface is both friendly and intuitive, and it enables you to access all of your cloud accounts using a highly secure password protection feature. What's more, you can use just one single password to access all your cloud accounts using Cloud Secure’s One-Step-Solution. A single password is all you need to access all your Cloud accounts such as Dropbox, Google Drive and Box drive with maximum security. Cloud Secure helps you to easily manage security on all cloud accounts simultaneously; requiring zero effort on your side to keep your data secured. All supported cloud services are locked on your PC automatically and you can view and access your cloud accounts on your PC from just one interface. Cloud Secure continues to sync your files and folders while your cloud account is locked. This helps you keep your files away from prying eyes without interfering with the syncing of your files in background. This is a really nice little extra feature that means you don’t need to unlock the cloud account to begin syncing. What's even better, is that while having the protection on, you can still access your respective Cloud account by clicking on the "View" button. In this way, your data can be viewed, synced and locked all at the same time. Cloud Secure can give you the access to all cloud accounts from a single interface, and you can’t view the accounts without a correct password. This means that you can share you PC without the risk of data loss, deletion or modification. Cloud Secure restricts the access of your files from prying eyes from stealing your data and protects your data from being deleted without your consent. This means that your files and folders are well protected and gives you complete peace of mind. Key Features Include: Lock Dropbox, Google Drive etc. on PC. Compatible with the latest versions of Windows. Access your files in protected view. Syncing while locked. Lock multiple Cloud accounts. Cloud Security on PC as well as the web.
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Gpg4win
Free
Gpg4win: A Free Security Program for Windows
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Password Storer
Free
Password Storer is a password manager designed for those people who both struggle to remember all their different passwords and who at the same time have too many to feasibly remember. Recent research in the UK suggests that on average, most people have somewhere around 12 to 30 different passwords to remember on a regular basis. Password Storer then, will take care of that for you. Password Storer will not come as a surprise to anyone who has used a password manager before, they all do the same thing after all; and that’s stick all your passwords in one place so that you only have to remember the one ‘Master’ password. The big difference with Password Storer however, is that it doesn’t store any of your passwords on an online server. Instead all your password credentials and logins are stored entirely in your own system, off line. This is also good for people with poor or limited internet speeds. All your passwords are heavily encrypted, as you would hopefully expect and demand from a password manager, and its creators also claim that their encryption make it impossible for anyone to hack your credentials. Having all your passwords stored locally also gives users the ultimate hacker proof option in that when you turn your machine off or disconnect from the internet, not even the KGB, FBI, CIA, or anyone else can hack you. Which is nice. The programmers of Password Storer also state that they have an ongoing competition for skilled hackers to try and break the encryption protocols, and that so far, there has been no winner, which should give users some extra assurance. Installing and using Password Storer is straightforward, and the interface is also easy to use. Key Features: Manages all your passwords. Doesn’t store credentials in the 24/7 365 day always online internet. Strong encryption protocols. Open competition for hackers to hack Password Storer only helps to improve security. Works offline. Passwords stored locally. Easy to use. Overall, Password Storer is a secure piece of software for managing passwords that looks good, has strong encryption, and works offline.
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Encryption

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July 19 Tech news roundup: OpenAI introduces an agentic AI, Copilot Vision is coming to Windows, ChromeOS and Android are merging

July 12 tech news roundup: Gmail adds a new way to manage subscriptions, Microsoft Edge now loads pages up to 40% faster, Beware of malicious browser extensions on Chrome, Edge and Firefox

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