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How about AxCrypt for file encryption? http://www.axantum.com/axcrypt/ http://www.axantum.com/axcrypt/ (I phrase this as a question because it'd be great if w
by hdivider 12y ago
How about AxCrypt for file encryption?
http://www.axantum.com/axcrypt/ http://www.axantum.com/axcrypt/
(I phrase this as a question because it'd be great if we could have some HN skepticism on this thing. Personally, I think everything basically checks out: open source, free, there's a name, phone number, address, picture etc.)
- codeulike 12y agoLooks like its just a 'right-click ... encrypt this file' sort of thing. Doesn't appear to do whole disk encryption or encrypted virtual drives.
- hdivider 12y agoYep, that's why I mentioned file encryption specifically. :) My use case is wanting to have an extra layer of paranoia before I upload anything important to the cloud.
- elect_engineer 12y agoAxCrypt looks solid for your purpose. Obviously if you are whoever it is who replaced Bin Laden you can't even trust your keyboard -- it might be reporting what you type to the NSA -- but for ordinary users it is a good choice. Plus, it is mature and unlikely to destroy your data through a bug.
- ashmud 12y agoI worked on a small software package for a financial firm that used AxCrypt for encryption. It wasn't bad from a program integration perspective. I can't personally verify the cryptographic security of it. Like codeulike said, it's a per-file based encryption. No virtual disk services.