Program Configuration

General Settings
You can choose between two different encryption formats, 128 bit AES and 256 bit AES.

Password Settings
The password setting is important, because your files will be encrypted using your password as the key.  Select a good password!

Selecting Good Passwords

Easy-to-guess passwords offer hackers the possibility to enter a system. The object when choosing a password is to make it as difficult as possible for anyone to make educated guesses about what you've chosen as a password. This leaves them no alternative but a brute force search, trying every possible combination of letters, numbers, and punctuation. A search of this sort, even conducted on a machine that could try one million passwords per second, would require, on the average, over one hundred years to complete.

Never share your password with another user or make your password known to anyone else.

Examples of passwords that can easily be broken are:

Passwords that are made up of a word or name in English or any other language

Transferring letters or numbers for similar ones (e.g., zeros for o's)

Words with a number added to the beginning or end

Your login name in any form (as-is, reversed, capitalized, doubled, etc.)

Your spouse's or child's name

One of the most common passwords is 'password' never use it

One of the most common passwords used for testing a program or service is 'demo' never use it even when just testing a program or service, especially if you have submitted any personal information.

Any other information easily obtained about you. This includes license plate numbers, telephone numbers, social security numbers, the brand of your automobile, the name of the street you live on, etc.

A password of all digits, or all the same letter. This significantly decreases the search time for password cracking software.

Good passwords should be at least 6 characters and consist of both lower and upper case letters, numbers, and symbols. A good way to select a password is to choose a line or two from a song or poem, and use the first letter of each word.