CryptoExpert Professional 7.9.13

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• Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $59.95 to buy
• Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
• Date added: October 24, 2009
• Total Downloads: 8,764
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CNET editors' review

Reviewed by: CNET staff on April 01, 2009

CryptoExpert Profressional is another entry in the saturated file encryption market. Despite several visits to its Help file, we still had problems navigating its confusing user interface.

The program can be accessed from a Taskbar icon. The user interface has large command buttons at the top of the window that appeared easy enough to understand, but after further inspection, we found them unhelpful in telling us what to do next. A tree-menu containing all of your folders resides on the far left. But the function of the other two panels was a little unclear. We visited the Help file, but it didn't offer a clear explanation. Clicking on the New button walked us through the process of creating an encryption container, and we appreciated the four encryption and two hash modes. But once we created the container, we weren't sure where to go next. There were options to mount and unmount the container, but like the rest of the interface, the onscreen guidance isn't adequate. A subsequent visit to the Help menu didn't offer any kind of useful explanation.

Both novice and experienced users will find this encryption program too cumbersome to handle, even with a 30-day trial. We recommend you skip it for a program that offers a less haphazard user interface.

Publisher's description

CryptoExpert uses a real-time on-the-fly encryption system to encrypt and decrypt data. Your files are stored in the encrypted form on virtual hard drive with password authentication, but when it is requested by any application, it gets decrypted on-the-fly. Conversely, unencrypted data to be stored is encrypted instantaneously and then stored. The CryptoExpert system mounts a volume file to create a "virtual drive" that appears to applications and users like any other physical drive. Any data that the user attempts to write to this drive is intercepted by CryptoExpert, encrypted, and written to the volume file. Attempts to read from this volume are also intercepted, and the relevant data is read by CryptoExpert from the volume file, decrypted, and presented to the application trying to read the data. Dismounting the CryptoExpert "virtual drive" ensures that data cannot be read from or written to it. All data is stored encrypted within the "container". As far as windows is concerned, there is a 'new' disk that has suddenly appeared. When the program exists or the volume is unmounted, the file system stays encrypted and there is absolutely no way anyone can recover/get the data without the pass phrase. Complete support for command line. Support for USB Flash Drives to mount containers without passwords. Works on Vista 32 and 64 bit. XP 32 and 64 bit as well as on 2000 and 2003. The latest version includes new feature: Disk Firewall to protect your virtual drive contents from malicious applications like viruses, trojajns.

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