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Re: Encrypt (single) folders under XP?

Subject: Re: Encrypt (single) folders under XP?
From: Duddits
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:46:24 -0400
Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware

On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:49:17 +0200, "s|b" <private@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I'm looking for a program that can encrypt/decode folders under XP. I've
>searched through Google Groups and came across File2File,  PC-Encrypt,
>AxCrypt, ...
>
>I'm fairly sure this has been asked before, but does anyone who's good
>experience with those (or others) ? There seem to be several programs
>who can do this, so it would be interesting if I can just single out a
>couple.
>
>AxCrypt looks interesting. Does it start up as a service? And what's the
>key-file about? Can you generate a key (and place it on a flash drive or
>something) that is needed, next to the password, to decode the files?
>And what encryption is used?
>
>Last, but not least, perhaps a dumb question, if one encrypts a folder
>with AxCrypt, will it prevent someone from opening it or will it open
>and show the content, meaning files with an extra .AXX extension added? 

I like/use BC Archive (freeware of course)
http://www.jetico.com/bcarchive.htm
Does what you want and more.

regards

Dud

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