Encrypto : Drag & Drop Encryption for Windows

Ciphers are being used by human beings ever since we learned to read and write. Ancient civilizations of Egypt, Rome and Greece are known to have used one or other type of ciphers. Leonardo da Vinci is said to have used mirror handwriting to make his diaries a little difficult to understand. In the World War 2, Germans caused a great headache by inventing the Enigma – a complex cipher machine. Ciphers are used to obfuscate or hide the sensitive information from the general view while giving some preset means to show this very information to the intended recipient. Even today we sometimes need to protect some files before sending them via email or file sharing services. For these requirements you should use a very secure modern cipher like AES 256 bit.

Encrypto

Encrypto is one of the many programs available that make use of the AES 256 bit cipher to encrypt your files. Encrypto offers a simple drag-n-drop interface to facilitate encryption of files and folders in Windows. Just launch Encrypto and then drag-n-drop the target files on the small Encrypto window.

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It will ask you for an encryption password. This same password will be required for decrypting the files. This is why you should make the password both easy to memorize as well as hard to guess. If you plan to encrypt really sensitive files, then you may want to use passwords generated by Norton Password Generator.

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One of the interesting features in Encrypto is the ability to store the password hint inside the encrypted file itself. But care should be taken not to store a very obvious password hint. Finally when the file is encrypted, you can click on the Save As button to save it anywhere on the hard disk. The original file stays intact and could be deleted manually if not needed anymore. The decryption of encrypted files works in a similar manner.

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Conclusion: Encrypto can help encrypt your sensitive files with a powerful cipher AES 256 bit. It integrates well into the Windows Explorer and you can encrypt or decrypt files through the right-click context menu.

You can download Encrypto for Windows from http://macpaw.com/encrypto.