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AxCrypt is a pretty nice open source (OSS) encryption program for Windows. What makes me want to write about it though is that it integrates directly with Windows Explorer and includes a right click context menu for easier manipulation of files so there isn’t a program that has to be started or opened (I always hate the wait for a program to start up…).

axcrypt

According to their site:

AxCrypt is the leading open source file encryption software for Windows. It integrates seamlessly with Windows to compress, encrypt, decrypt, store, send and work with individual files.

AxCrypt is pretty straight forward;

To encrypt:

1. right click over a file
2. choose “AxCrypt”
3. choose “Encrypt”
   

   AxCrypt Encrypt

4. enter a passphrase
   

   AxCrypt Enter Passphrase

5. click ok

To decrypt:

1. right click over archive
2. choose “AxCrypt”
3. choose “Decrypt”
   

   AxCrypt Decrypt

4. enter passkey
   

   AxCrypt Enter Passphrase

5. click ok

If you need to share sensitive files between people this is a really nice project.

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Tags: encryption, Windows

This entry was written by Eric Lamb and posted on Thursday, March 26th, 2009 at 5:52 am and is filed under IT. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.