Free Personal Privacy and Security with AxCrypt

Do you need Personal Privacy? AxCrypt is great for protecting your documents such as private letters, correspondence, job information, medical information, financial details stored on a local hard disk or network server.

Just right-click any document file and encrypt it with AxCrypt. Viewing and opening for update is just as convenient as before encryption due to AxCrypt's automatic decryption/open/re-encryption function.

If you use a Key-File on a diskette or USB thumb drive, your files will be encrypted to the highest level of protection as long the Key-File is kept secret.

In many cases, just the file name is enough to violate privacy. You can then use the AxCrypt -> Rename option from the the right-click menu. The file will be given a completely anonymous name, but the original name is restored when you decrypt or open the file.

AxCrypt does not support storing many files in an archive, like WinZip. This is for a reason - because WinZip (and Windows XP Compressed Folders) already does it so well!

So, simply create your .zip-file, put whatever you want to be there in it, and then encrypt it with AxCrypt. AxCrypt can now open the archive in WinZip or in a Compressed Folder view, and you can work with the archive as usual, including opening, editing, adding and deleting individual files.

When you're done with the archive, AxCrypt will automatically re-encrypt it, like it will with any type of file, and wipe its temporary files.

Do you do your backups to CD's or DVD's, or just to files on another hard-disk using backup programs or perhaps WinZip? If you encrypt the backup-archive with AxCrypt, you can then store the CD, DVD or file in any place, without fear of your privacy being violated should it get lost.

Store a copy of AxDecrypt with your backup, and you are independent of an AxCrypt installation when you need to recover.

Do you have many PIN's for your credit and ATM cards to remember? Dozens of web-sites with different passwords?

There are many special purpose password managers out there, some really good, but why bother? Use a regular text file with notepad, or download this Excel-template. (Right-click the link and choose "Save Target As...") Encrypt the file with AxCrypt.

You can then store your passwords conveniently and safely.
(Only use the Excel-template, if you have Windows 2000 or later and follow the advice on using EFS on your temporary directory due to Excel's use of temporary files).

If you also follow the advice above on renaming the file, no hint about the actual contents remain visible in your computer.

Further notes: Notepad does not create any temporary files and AxCrypt will properly wipe its traces, so this is every bit as secure as most password managers. Some managers will attempt to lock memory, or encrypt the data in memory, to keep it out of the paging file, which is even better of course. If this is a concern or not depends on your level of paranoia.

Currently it support the following languages English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian and Swedish.

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