FineCrypt Archiver

FineCrypt Archiver lets you create strongly encrypted file archives. Encrypted file archive is a convenient means to securely store your confidential files. Once you have created an archive you can open it and perform various operations on it, such as adding to or deleting files from archive, decrypting all or several files from archive, you can open files right inside archive and edit them "in-place", in this case the file in archive will be updated with the changes.

The main features of FineCrypt Archiver are:

Creating strongly encrypted zip-like file archives

With FineCrypt Archiver you can encrypt files in two ways: the program either may  encrypt each original unencrypted file into the individual encrypted file, in this case you will get as many encrypted files as unencrypted ones; or it may create a file archive and place all the encrypted files into this archive, in this case you will get only one encrypted file.

You can open encrypted archives and view or modify files contained in them. To open a file residing in an archive, just double-click it in the ArcViewer window and file will be opened with the default program which is used for opening the files of this type.

You can create archives which contain directories and whole directory trees with  tens of thousands files. With this encryption software you can keep your folders with confidential files permanently in encrypted state and view or edit files when necessary right inside encrypted archive.

Integration with Windows shell

You can select files for encrypting with FineCrypt Archiver in two ways: by choosing "Encrypt" from the context menu, which appears when you right-click a file or folder, or by dragging the file you want to encrypt onto FineCrypt Archiver's icon on the desktop of your computer. You can decrypt files from within the Windows Explorer simply by double clicking with the left mouse button the file you want to decrypt; or by dragging encrypted file onto FineCrypt Archiver's icon on the desktop.

Permanent deletion of files

When you delete your sensitive files from a disk on your computer, the Windows does not erase these files' contents from the disk - it only deletes 'references' to these files from some system tables. Contents of the deleted file (or file body) continue to be stored on the disk and can be easily restored using any disk tool utility.

With the "Wipe" utility you can permanently delete the file content so it cannot be retrieved using disk recovery software.

FineCrypt Archiver deletes the files by overwriting them with the help of the procedure recommended by Department of Defense: first all the data in the file is overwritten by all ones then it is overwritten by all zeros and finally it is overwritten by a stream of random values. This procedure is repeated as many times as defined in the user preferences.

10 encryption algorithms

You can choose for encrypting any of 10 encryption algorithms: AES, Blowfish, CAST-256, GOST, Square, MARS, RC-6, Serpent, Triple-DES and Twofish; also you can use any of four encryption modes: Electronic Codebook, Cipher Block Chaining, Cipher Feedback and Output Feedback.

See also: Detailed comparison of Crypto Systems' encryption software.