If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to Windows Reference RSS feed Thanks for visiting!One needs to understand the big security risks when sending confidential files on emails or infact transferring over the internet because, unless you encrypt your emails or send files through secure channel (HTTPS or SSH) there is every little [...]

Would you compromise security for convenience? Hope not!!!
With Password Safe, you neither have to compromise security by writing you confidential information like Bank Account login details onto a piece of paper or copy them all onto an Excel sheet or even on a notepad nor have to make it complex to remember a million usernames [...]

Unless you use a command-line utility like Cipher.exe, it’s difficult to see at a glance which files are encrypted and which are not. Right-clicking each file and then choosing Properties, General, Advanced (followed by Cancel, Cancel) is tedious.

Encryption is the process of converting data into a format that cannot be read by others. You can use EFS in Windows XP to automatically encrypt your data when it is stored on the hard disk.

Gpg4win is a GNU Privacy Guard installer package for Windows 2000,XP,2003 and Vista for EMail and file encryption. Both relevant cryptography standards are supported, OpenPGP and S/MIME (the latter is in progress and currently works with GnuPG2 and Claws Mail).
The following are the software modules included in the Gpg4win software:
GnuPG: The core encryption tool
WinPT: A [...]