[Hidden-tech] file encryption sw

[Jan Werner]

SecureZip comes from PKWare, who originated the Zip format. As a 
longtime user of their software, I had a license for an earlier version 
and thought it was an excellent product, but not well suited for my 
needs. It's really aimed at enterprises that use Microsoft Office and 
want to force their employees to encrypt all their documents and email.

For strong encryption, I suggest using the 7z (7-Zip) or RAR (WinRAR) 
formats rather than Zip for the archive, with AES-256 encryption, a long 
password (15 bytes or more) and checking the option to encrypt filenames 
which encrypts the header so that you need the password to even see the 
contents (not possible with a standard Zip archive).

While not as common as Zip, both 7z and RAR archives can be opened by 
many archive programs other than the ones that created them.

Disk encryption, like TrueCrypt, is fine, but won't add much to the 
above and will make it much harder for recipients to extract the data.

Jan Werner
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> It probably depends on your security needs, basic Zip password
> protection is not very good (you can search for cracking software).
> There are commercial products that build on that though, we looked at
> one called SecureZip at one point, it includes public/private key
> encryption by certificate if you need to be more careful than just a
> password can give you.
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> It's probably even better than TrueCrypt (which I suggested earlier
> without thinking about it too much) for passing data back and forth, but
> it's not free.  You might want to also look into other PGP based
> encryption solutions.
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> -Dan
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> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Andrew Bellak
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>     I had to do this recently and learned that this is not so straight
>     forward.
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>     zip files can be password protected/ encrypted so I would see if
>     your zip software has this ability.  If not, you can find one / buy
>     one that can.
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>     Regards,
>     Andrew
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>     On 7/20/2011 11:55 AM, ckiras at comcast.net
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>>     Hi!
>>     I am looking for free-easy to use file/disc encryption software.
>>     I have a client needing to land mail a CD/DVD with sensitive
>>     information.
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>>     Thank you
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