New in version 4.4: DeepEncrypt & PowerUpdate

DeepEncrypt is a new function which allows to encrypt (or decrypt) in one go complete directories or subdirectories. This option permits management of entire tree folders and files are being secured quickly. As for single options it will be possible to encode files name (new option, see 4.3 vesrion) and insert checksum MD5 (new option, see 4.3 version).

PowerUpdate technology permit updating of PowerCrypt 2000 via Internet. You will be informed whether there updates or your version contains recent open bugs and invited to visit this site.

We have also removed Windows Scripting Runtime building our own undersystem for the management of filesystems making PowerCrypt more portable on various Windows systems.

New in version 4.3: filename encoding

Encrypting your files is the best choice to protect your privacy and securing your sensible data: with PowerCrypt nobody will get your files without the correct password. However, until version 4.3, it was still possible to obtain informations about original file contents, simply reading their filename. Here is an example:

Suppose to have some photos you want to encrypt: my_foto.jpg and boss_foto.jpg will become my_foto.jpg.cry and boss_foto.jpg.cry

Two files, transformed in .cry format, are no more readable without PowerCrypt and the right password, but their names give an idea about their content, so your privacy is not at 100% yet!

With PowerCrypt 2000 4.3 you have the feature the encode filenames too, making them unreadable; for example, my_foto.jpg will become a file named 5351AA1F52193AC6FE3C496B338A51C8.cry ! PowerCrypt will create also a file named 5351AA1F52193AC6FE3C496B338A51C8.crn (note the crn extension) that contains the original filename in an encrypted format. Simply archive your cry and crn files toghether and you'll be able to get back the original file name when decrypting.

New in version 4.2: MD5 checksum control

When you receive encrypted data, either files or plain text, you have no information about content until you try to decrypt it. At this point you have two possible results: data is correctly decryypted or you get only no sense data...

In this second case the possible causes are mainly two: you have used a wrong password or encrypted data was changed after it was been encrypted (for manomission or failed transfers).

MD 5 is a special analysis algorithm (checksum or hash) which get an unique "fingertip" from encrrypted data, so you can use it to compare with the effective checksum before the decryption process.