Keep Files Secure

Encrypting Your Data 

  

The best way to keep your sensitive information from evil eyes is to encrypt it. Encryption is 99% hacker safe. Encrypting data is not hard as it may sound. In this guide I will teach you how to encrypt your data.

Encrypting Data

Best FREE software that you can use to encrypt your data is Truecrypt.

You can download Truecrypt from here : http://adf.ly/TXLwa

It is Free, Open-Source and it works on Windows 7/Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.

How to Encrypt
A simple beginners tutorial is available here:
http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/tutorial

Main Features:

• Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.
• Encrypts an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard drive.
  
• Encrypts a partition or drive where Windows is installed (pre-boot authentication).
  
• Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent.
  
• Parallelization and pipelining allow data to be read and written as fast as if the drive was not encrypted.
  
• Encryption can be hardware-accelerated on modern processors.
  
• Provides plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password:
  Hidden volume (steganography) and hidden operating system.