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.

Secret Disk
Free
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Hideman
Free
Stay hidden, stay free
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Kaspersky Password Manager
Free
Kaspersky Password Manager is able to securely store your passwords, addresses & banking details, and can then synchronize them across your various devices, whether that be PC, Mac, Android phone & tablet, or iPhone & iPad. The app is really easy to setup and use; just install it, and run through a quick process to choose a master password. Next, you need to access the websites that have your login details, which you want the utility to remember. Now you need to populate the database with the required login details. This is then stored and encrypted and on your return visit, the website user name and password will be completed automatically by Kaspersky Password Manager. Kaspersky Password Manager will also automatically populate any needed web forms with your details. In addition Kaspersky Password Manager has a password generator* tool that automatically creates strong passwords for you. Overall, the app is a great tool that saves all your login user names and passwords into one database**, so you don’t have to remember them all. Kaspersky’s Password Manager is easy to use, lightweight, has virtually no system impact and is very secure. *Passwords are generated on your PC – and can then be used on any of the supported devices. **Kaspersky Password Manager gives you a choice of free or premium versions of the app. The free version will allow you to store fifteen account passwords, addresses or bank card details. However, if you want to manage more items, you can upgrade to the premium version that will allow you to store and manage an unlimited number of passwords, addresses and bank card details.
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DiskCryptor
Free
Using DiskCryptor is fairly straightforward for the average user. After you install DiskCryptor, it will run as a service in the background with an icon in the system tray. If you want to, you can set it to load from your boot sector if you've encrypted your system drive that is. When you click on the system tray icon you are presented with a standard dialog box from which you encrypt/decrypt (AES 256, Two-fish, Serpent) as well as mount and unmount any encrypted drives. Key Features include: Full encryption of external storage devices such as USB drives, external HDD and CDs and DVDs. Support for AES hardware acceleration. Support for SSD TRIM extension. Support for AES, Twofish, Serpent encryption algorithms. Support for key files and pre-boot authentication available. Support for various multi-boot options and compatible third party boot loaders. Intuitive interface. Overall, DiskCryptor is lightweight, it is quite reliable, and it doesn't heavily impact system performance. If you need drive and partition-level encryption only, then DiskCryptor is a good choice.
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Encrypto
Free
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Password Safe
Free
Password Safe allows you to manage your old passwords and to easily and quickly generate, store, organize, retrieve, and use complex new passwords, using password policies that you control. Once stored, your user names and passwords are just a few clicks away. Using Password Safe you can organize your passwords using your own customizable references - for example, by user ID, category, web site, or location. You can choose to store all your passwords in a single encrypted master password list (an encrypted password database), or use multiple databases to further organize your passwords (work and home, for example). And with its intuitive interface you will be up and running in minutes.
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Hidden Disk
Free
Hidden Disk is a nice little piece of software that allows you to easily create password 'virtual' protected disks that can be used to store personal or confidential data, and then hide them in plain sight from private eyes. And you can do it for free. The process takes less than a minute to create an additional disk for all your secret files and folders, and then just another few clicks to hide it. Restoring your disk so you can see your hidden files is as simple as simply entering your password. We found Hidden Disk to be a simple, yet powerful tool that was ideal for hiding files and folders in Windows away from prying eyes, and as we already said, it's completely free. Creating hidden folders and storing files you would rather keep secret is a straightforward and simple task that requires no specific technical knowledge. The trick to Hidden Disk is that it doesn't require any more disk space than you already have on your PC. The new 'Hidden Disk' is virtual and uses free space already available. Additionally, the password protection is optional and can be fully disabled if you don't want it. In practice, Hidden Disk functions like a regular disk or partition, the only real difference being you can make it appear and disappear at will in just a few seconds. Hidden Disk is also 100% compatible with all your other installed software and programs. Key Features: Creates virtual secret disk to store your secret files in a separate safe place. 100% compatible with any other program on your computer. Good for shared computers. Optional Password Protection. The free version, here on Filehippo.com offers the basic creating and hiding disk options and is fully functional. The paid version lets you create more than one disk, offers some extra security options, and a few more bells and whistles. As we say though, the free version will probably suffice for most people.
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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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Fort
Free
Fort offers easy and reliable encryption of files and folders. Password protecting files and folders has never been easier. Fort can be also used to encrypt files and directories in Onedrive, Dropbox and other similar services. Our core components are open source. Fort is used by thousands of individuals and companies around the world. Fort is available in 16 different languages. Features Include: Delete files securely Strong encryption Password manager Encrypt filenames Overall Fort is a versatile file encryption and password manager for Windows with, considering its range of features, a reasonable price tag.
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Xiao Steganography
Free
Steganography - Hiding Data From the Spyware and Hackers With Steganography
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AnyMP4 iPhone Unlocker
Free
Free Windows iPhone unlocker
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Super File Shredder
Free
Super File Shredder: Permanently Remove Files and Folders
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The Vault
Free
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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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USB Safeguard
Free
USB Safeguard: Protect Your USB Drive with Encryption
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VeraCrypt
Free
VeraCrypt is a great application to establish and maintain an on-the-fly-encrypted volume. On-the-fly encryption means that data is automatically encrypted right before it is saved and decrypted right after it is loaded, without any user intervention. This is a very secure method of data encryption as any data that is stored on an encrypted volume cannot be read (decrypted) without using the correct password/keyfile(s) or correct encryption keys. The entire file system is encrypted (e.g. file names, folder names, contents of every file, free space, meta data, etc) to give you as much security as possible. Key features include: Easy to use interface. Lightweight. Enhanced security. VeraCrypt is a free disk encryption software based on TrueCrypt 7.1a. It adds enhanced security to the algorithms used for system and partitions encryption making it immune to new developments in brute-force attacks. VeraCrypt has been specifically designed to give you better security with the data you want to encrypt. It is relatively lightweight, and has an easy to use interface.
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Free Folder Password Lock
Free
Free Folder Password Lock: Top-notch encryption
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Free Folder Password Lock
Free
Free Folder Password Lock - File encryption
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IP Scanner Advanced
Free
IP Scanner Advanced - Useful and most importantly, free
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Protected Folder
Free
Protected Folder is a folder and file locker that protects your privacy and important data from theft, loss or leaks. The app is simple to operate; to lock folder and file, just drag and drop them into Protected Folder's safety box and you can hide and protect them from being modified. Key Features include: Hide from View: hide folders, files, pictures & videos from those who want to investigate and search for certain files on your computer. No one can see them except you. Block Access: easily block access to files, folders, and programs you choose. You can also password protect a folder and its files so that others can see it but cannot access, read or view its content. Write Protection: you can protect your files from being modified by others. No one can change the content of your files without your permission. Keep your files safe and intact. Privacy Protection: keep your private data, files, pictures or videos into Protected Folder, the only way to access these files is with your password. With Protected Folder you minimize the chance of data theft, data loss, or data leaks. Protect your important files or data from being accidentally deleted, replaced, or stolen by others with this simple tool. Protected Folder is an superb folder locker if you are concerned with the security of you private or important data. it is easy to use, has a small footprint and is a good way to ensure your data stays private.
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Encryption

Secret Disk

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Password Safe

Hidden Disk

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Fort

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