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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/NT
- Date added: July 05, 2005
- Total Downloads: 70,229
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 15 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This free encryption utility earns points for its ease of use, security, and speed. Although BCArchive's spartan interface makes it pretty clear how to create secure archives, many users may prefer to encrypt files via the right-click menu. Similar to most quality programs of this type, BCArchive can create self-decrypting files, so your recipients won't have to bother with installing the program themselves. All other users will need your password if they want to access your sensitive documents. It's nice that the application supports multiple secure algorithms, including Triple DES, Blowfish, and Rijndael. However, unlike many of the top applications in this class, BCArchive lacks a file shredder for destroying data. Still, on most other fronts, this encryption tool makes a strong case for itself.Publisher's description
From Jetico :With BCArchive you can encrypt a group of files or folders and compress them to an encrypted archive (a single file). You can create a self-extracted program containing encrypted archives and e-mail it to a friend, who will receive the archive and be able to read your files, either by using the correct password or public or secret key technology. All public and secret keys that already have been generated and used in other programs can be used in BCArchive. BCArchive uses strong symmetric-encryption algorithms, such as Blowfish, IDEA, Triple DES, and CAST5; secure hash algorithms such as SHA-1, MD5, and RIPEMD-160; and asymmetric (public/secret-key) algorithms such as RSA and ELGamal/Diffie-Hellman. The program also conforms to specifications PKCS #5, PKCS #12, and X.509.
Version 1.6 supports Windows XP 64-bit Edition.
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: BCArchive 1.06
Pros: Very easy to use(unlike some ive tried).Just right click and archive securely.Then when you want to review say a video it opens up in a temp. folder and runs with an application to show the file and when you close THAT application it deletes the file from the temp file.How cool is that??Seems very secure too.
Cons: Afew bugs but nothing you cant live with.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: BCArchive 1.06
"Generate random seed buffer ???"
Pros: After reading the two existing reviews I was really looking forward to using this program. And yes it was really nice...
Cons: ...except for the "generate random seed buffer" that seemed to pop up every time I want to encrypt something.
This means that I have to wiggle around with my mouse until I have generated enough "random seed" data for the little utility to be happy. Which takes quite some time and is reeeeeeally annoying.
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