Quickly compress a group of files
Platform : Windows 98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP
Type: freeware
Manufacturer: Jetico, Inc.
Size: 2.56MB
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This is the software publisher's description.
Designed to compress a group of files/folders to a single encrypted file.
Compression utilities such as Zip, Arj, RAR and many others are really
helpful in saving hard disk space. However, in many cases the data we compress
is private. The question of privacy is even more important when we wish to send
compressed data over insecure Internet connections. There are powerful
encryption algorithms and technologies that can help people keep their private
data in a secure form. But it is important:
Using BCArchive is very simple yet very secure. Let's say you want to back up
some data and store it as compressed, encrypted archive on your hard drive. All
you need to do is specify a password for the archive when you create it and
enter the same password to decrypt and extract the data. This simple process
requires no special knowledge of encryption.
BCArchive uses powerful algorithms, such as IDEA and Blowfish to encrypt the
data and the PKCS #5 standard for derivation encryption key from the password
string. Beware of trusting your data to less sophisticated encryption programmes
because the archives they create can often be cracked with a simple freeware
utility.