Posts Tagged ‘hiding in plain sight’

Single File Encryption

In today’s world, you always need to be wary of file and docu­ment secu­rity. If you are in the office, at home, or on the road, encryp­tion of sen­si­tive files is always recommended.

But what if you have one file that you want to secure and don’t want to do a full encryp­tion on a thumb drive?  Have I found a great FREE uti­lity for you.

It goes by the name of Safe Cal­cu­la­tor and it made by Kril­Soft­ware.  Not only does this appli­ca­tion encrypt your file (admit­tedly pro­bably very light encryp­tion), but it hides it in abso­lu­tely plain sight.

Another advan­tage of this appli­ca­tion is how por­ta­ble it is.  No ins­tall or registry entries requi­red.  You just copy the file to your drive (hard or thumb) and launch the appli­ca­tion.  After typing in the PIN and hit­ting MS (Memory Save) you go into safety mode.  You can then add a sin­gle file, copy, or res­tore the file out of memory as sim­ple as using a cal­cu­la­tor.  I admit it did take a moment or two to unders­tand the func­tions, but the readme file explains it pretty well.

You read that right, a cal­cu­la­tor.  Even under close scru­tiny it has all of the appea­ran­ces of Win­dows Cal­cu­la­tor.  Hiding in plain sight, just in case that thumb disk is mis­pla­ced, sto­len, or left han­ging out of someone’s computer.

The only draw­back I found was that you can only add one file into the pro­tec­tion.  But for what it is desig­ned for and the price, you can’t beat it.

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  Safe Cal­cu­la­tor (122.4 KiB, 128 hits)