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WPA PSK Passphrase Generator 1
WPA PSK Passphrase Generator is created to be a useful and creative tool which will generate 63 character ascii pass phrases randomly, allowing the generated passphrase to be copied to the clipboard. more>> <<less
Diceware PassPhrase Generator 1.0.0.19
An excellent utility available ***FREE*** to generate extremely secure 4,5 or... more>> An excellent utility available ***FREE*** to generate extremely secure 4,5 or 6 word PassPhrase, utilising the random nature of rolling<<less
SafeSex 0.35
Allows you to have some notes that are easily accessible, but relatively secure. more>> SafeSex allows you to have some notes that are easily accessible, but relatively secure. It sits on your screen, waiting for a click, and on a click it will activate and give you access to your notes. That is, of course, if you enter the passphrase that your notes are encrypted with. For ease, the passphrase will be cached in memory, and expire after a user-configurable time.
The notes themselves are stored in RTF, and encrypted when stored to disk. When the SafeSex window is not open, the notes are not stored in memory. They are encrypted and decrypted on demand.
The encryption used is Blowfish, using the 20 byte SHA-1 of the passphrase as the key. It uses Blowfish in CBC mode, with the initialization vector being incremented every time.
SafeSex keeps running in the background, using very little memory and resources, and automatically keeps itself running across reboots (i.e. if you reboot with SafeSex running, it will come back on startup)<<less
Acerose Password Vault 1.0.4
An easy way to organize and keep all your passwords both safe and secure. more>> The Acerose Password Vault provides you with an easy way to organize and keep all your passwords both safe and secure. In this technological age, passwords are the means of keeping all your on-line assets safe from attack, be they e-mail, retirement accounts, on-line banking, web site control, or tax filings. The problem is that most people use a few easy to remember passwords and then reuse them over and over. With Acerose Password Vault you only need to remember one strong password or passphrase to open the vault file. This frees you to use strong automatically generated passwords for all your other needs.
Features:
Many features to maximize the safe storage of passwords.
Secure storage of passwords: At the heart of the Acerose Password Vault is a streaming cipher built upon the SHA-1 (Secure Hash Algorithm 1). The SHA-1 is the basis for all federally approved digital signature algorithms.
Create strong passwords easily with a cryptographic quality password generator. The password generator is highly configurable and graphically displays the approximate strength of the setting you choose.
The auto manager feature allows many users to run the Acerose Password Vault program from a single network location. The advantage of using a network location is that you have access to your passwords from any PC on the network. Hundreds of users can create and access their passwords without needing to know of or coordinate with other users. Of course, you can run it on a single PC if thats what you want.
The multiple action launch lets you launch (open) a web page and copy the corresponding password to the clipboard with a single click. This feature is highly configurable and includes the ability to use scripts as part of the URL, as well as clear the clipboard after a selectable delay.
You can also chain one vault file to another, which lets you separate passwords of one purpose from others using a master vault to open other vaults.<<less
Valise Light 3.4-1
A free tool that will help you create a compressed file archive more>> A free tool that will help you create a compressed file archive
The Valise Light application was designed to help you create a compressed file archive.
Main features:
- Create a Compressed File Archive
- Have a document or program opened after extraction
- Specify 256bit AES encryption with a passphrase
- Compression/Encryption progress.
- Time-locked archives!
opened after extraction Specify 256bit AES encryption with a passphrase Let us suggest an ultra-strong passphrase. Compression/Encryption progress. New! Time-locked archives!GPGrelay 0.959
GPGrelay - send and receive emails that are conform to PGP-MIME (RFC 2015, RFC 3156) more>>
GPGrelay application will enable many email-clients to send and receive emails that are conform to PGP-MIME (RFC 2015, RFC 3156). But it can also handle simple emails containing normal PGP-Blocks (sometimes referred to as inlined PGP).
GPGrelay is, as indicated by its name a local relaying server. It works completely transparent for your Email-Client as well as for the remote Server.
Now, if you want to send emails encrypted, GPGrelay encrypts them and sends the encrypted mail to the SMTP-Server. If you receive an encrypted mail, GPGrelay does the decryption for you - so your Email-Client never sees any encrypted mails, which is quite a nice feature when your Email-Client (like Outlook Express) is not capable of handling those mails.
But this also means, if an eavesdropper has access to your local environment, where Emails are stored decrypted, he can easily get access to them!
But on the other hand: If an eavesdropper really is present in your local Site, he could probably setup some mechanism (Trojan Horses come to mind) to get your Keyring and the Passphrase you use...
CipherWall Self-Decryptor 2.42 Build 1011
CipherWall Self-Decryptor is designed for self-decrypting archives creation and data wiping more>>
Users data is compressed and encrypted with a key made from a passphrase and a key file. Then executable module is added to this archive so it becomes independent from the main program.
To decrypt and decompress this archive you dont need to have the same program! You must know the passphrase and/or have the key file!
Main features:
- its FREE;
- high variable compression level (Deflate algorithm);
- you can set different compression level for each file or directory in the archive;
- strong crypto-algorithms (Blowfish with 448-bits key in CFB mode, RC4 with 512-bits key, RC5 with 512-bits key in CFB mode);
- archives are not limited in size;
- files attributes and other system information is also stored in archive;
- your can use passphrase and key file together;
- your can use remote key file (the program will download it itself from specified URL);
- modified ANSI X9.17 algorithm is used for random initial vectors (IV) generation;
- SHA-512 algorithm is used to generate encryption key from passphrase and key file;
- CRC32 algorithm is used for data verification;
- wipe algorithms: fast, DoD-5220.22-M and Gutmans.
Enhancements:
- build-in passphrases generator;
- program interface supplemented;
- pseudo-random numbers generator modified;
- RC5 algorithm optimized.
VisualSoft FileSecure 1.0
Complete Security for your files and folders more>>
The encrypted file can be decrypted simply by double clicking the archive with the given passphrase. The user needs no installation of any application to decrypt the files.
It also support file compression and secure FTP.
decrypted simply by double clicking the archive with the given passphrase. It supports file/folder compression and SecureAbsolutePrivacy 2.5.0.15
An encrypted organizer for comprehensive protection of your personal data more>> An encrypted organizer for comprehensive protection of your personal data
Never have data been handled and kept on your personal computer in such a intrusion-proof and safe way! Every conceivable means have been adopted to eclipse your data for unauthorized access. Nobody else but you should ever be able to view your personal data.
A number of measures have been implemented to achieve this unprecedented level of data security:
- Military-grade encryption
- Permantent (uninterrupted) database encryption
- Records encrypted and decrypted one by one
- Multiple keywords
Of course, all data stored with this organizer are spy-proof, even while you are working with your data: appointments, tasks, memos, financial transactions, passwords, credit card data etc. Nothing will ever leak out, all data withstand the most sophisticated cracking attempts.
The organizer includes the following sections:
- Calendar - for scheduling your appointments
- Contacts - keeps addresses and other data of your contacts
- Diary ? your most intimate daily log
- Task Lists ? check lists of what you should do
- Confidential Data ? for storing passwords and other sensitive data
- Memos and Notes ? whatever is noteworthy
- Budget Management - handle up to 3 private or professional budgets
- Import data ? from Outlook or Palm Desktop
The software is continuously updated and several new sections are under development:
- A Mail Client that keeps your emails out of reach for anybody trying to spy on you.
- A File Manager that allows you to encrypt every document and folder on your harddisks or other storage media.
- A PDA version of AbsolutePrivacy. There is a major risk of other people getting access to the data stored on your PDA in case you loose or forget it somewhere.
- A Synchronization Module to exchange data with Outlook.
- An Alarm for scheduled appointments.
Permanent Encryption
Some software products in the PIM category may allow encrypting the database at the end of the day when exiting the program. This requires opening the database before accessing it and leaving it open and vulnerable as long as it is used.
In AbsolutePrivacy, all information is permanently stored in encrypted form on the hard disk. There is no need to decrypt a complete database file before opening it.
By decrypting only one record at a time in volatile memory before displaying it on the screen (see below: Single Record Encryption), fool-proof data security is provided because encryption is executed continuously and reliably in the background, without the user ever having to care about it or having to remember encrypting the file after closure.
Single Record Encryption/Decryption
Every single piece of information (record) is encrypted with one out of tenthousands of passwords (see next paragraph). When reading a specific record (e.g. an address), it is copied to the volatile memory (RAM) where it is decrypted before being displayed on the screen. On the harddisk it remains stored in encrypted form.
The plain (decrypted) information is NEVER EVER stored on the harddisk or any other storage device, not even partially. If the record is modified, it passes the encryption filter before being written back to the harddisk. Nobody will ever be able to hack or to decipher any info by analyzing the harddisk, not even with the most sophisticated methods available.
Thousands of Encryption Keys (Passwords)
While the database is opened with one main passphrase (the Master Passphrase), internally, tens of thousands encryption keys (composed of random characters) are created with a special algorithm and used to encrypt every piece of information individually.
The likelihood of the same key being used more than once in 50000 records is almost nil. In other words, in an average sized database, all records are encrypted with different, individual keys.
Highly secure Encryption Algorithms
The 128 ? 256 bit encryption algorithms are similar to those used by the military and are among the most secure.
It has been calculated that the 128 bit encryption algorithms are so strong that it would take a network of supercomputers significantly longer than the age of the universe to crack the code (millions of years), not to speak of 192 and 256 bit encryption, used extensively in the program, too.
Since every record is encrypted with an individual password, in the utopical event of someone succeeding to break the code, only the information contained in 1 single record would be uncovered.
If you activate this function, the program will be closed automatically after a customizable period of 1-15 minutes of inactivity. This prevents you from inadvertently forgetting to close your database when leaving your workstation.
Alternatively, you can opt for not closing the program, but to only hide the data you marked as private or to close the active section (e.g. the Calendar or the Diary) when the program has been idle for some time.
Hide Private Records
This function provides an additional level of security: records flagged as private can be hidden when someone else (e.g. your secretary) is allowed to use the application.
Optional PIN (secondary passphrase) to access applications
When used by more than one person, the administrator/owner of the database file can protect single sections (like the budget or the diary section) additionally by defining a PIN code or, conversely, give another person (e.g. the secretary) exclusive access to a specific section.
In combination with the "Hide Private Records"-function, the PIN enables for instance the secretary to use the budget and the address/contact section, without being able to see the private records. No other person trying to gain information will manage to open any of the PIN-protected sections.
Passphrase Entry
Minimum passphrase length: 8 characters. The more characters, the lower the risk of cracking the passphrase (8 characters reflecting the available keys of the keyboard would theoretically require a mean of 92^92/2 attempts to open the database; therefore, it is important to use a relatively difficult to guess passphrase, the longer the better, preferably containing non-alfanumeric keys).
Forced delay between passphrase inputs: 2 seconds (this makes it virtually impossible for automatized brute-force attacks to open the database)
Maximum number of retries: after 3 wrong passphrase inputs, the application is closed. Reopening the program takes some time, which is an additional protection against brute-force attacks.
Main features:
- Block cipher encryption with Rijndael?AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) and Blowfish algorithms. The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is the current encryption standard (Federal Information Processing Standard number 197 or FIPS-197) intended to be used by U.S. Government organizations to protect sensitive (and even secret and top secret) information.
- SHA-1 and SHA-256 message digest hash algorithms.
- Password-based key derivation function (PKCS #5 v2 PBKDF2)
- Secure random number generators compliant with FIPS-140-2 and X9.31/X9.17
- Independent of Microsoft Cryptographic API
- Auto-Shutoff / Auto-Block Data Access
System requirements:
- PC or compatible with Pentium class processor or higher
- VGA adapter or monitor
- Pointing device (Mouse or equivalent)
- 128 MB RAM (with Windows XP)
- 12 MB free disk space
- Internet Explorer 4.0 or later to view Help
) While the database is opened with one main passphrase (the Master Passphrase), internally, tens of thousands encryption keys (composed of random characters) are created with a special algorithmfSekrit 1.3
fSekrit - easily read and edit encrypted notes in their own portable executables more>>
Another advantage of using fSekrit is that your un-encrypted data is never stored on your harddisk. With a traditional encryption utility you would have to decrypt the file to disk, view or edit it and then re-encrypt it and unless you use secure file wiping programs, it would be a trivial matter for someone to retrieve your un-encrypted data, even though you has been deleted. This cant be done with fSekrit, though, since it never stores your un-encrypted data on disk.
fSekrit uses very strong encryption (256-bit AES/Rijndael in CBC mode) to ensure that your data is never at risk. Self contained fSekrit notefiles are tiny ! Only 40k plus the size of your text.
Your unencrypted data is never stored to disk by fSekrit. It is, however, stored in memory (otherwise you wouldnt be able to view or edit it .
This means that windows, in case of low memory, might choose to swap it out to disk, in which case a malicious hacker with access to your computer could snoop it from your paging file. So, avoid running fSekrit in low-memory situations (i.e. dont keep it open while playing 3D games or using photoshop).
The 256-bit AES encryption key is constructed directly as an SHA-256 hash of your passphrase.
When you use file->save, some tricks have to used, since windows will not let an application write to its own .exe file (or in fact any .exe file that is currently running). Thus, fSekrit makes a copy of itself with the newly saved data, launches this temp file that copies itself to the main file, and launch the main file again to delete the temp file. This is why the main window goes in and out of existance briefly when you save.
To avoid re-entering your passphrase every time you save, fSekrit passes your encryption key on the commandline. But note that your passphrase is never passed on the commandline, so simple snooping cannot reveal it.
A skilled malicious person *could* theoretically snoop the key and use it to decrypt your data though, so be cautious when running fSekrit on systems you dont trust. However if you are using a computer you dont trust then there are more serious risks to worry about, such as the possibility that there are keyloggers running, which would record your passphrase without the complexity that key snooping would require.
The fSekrit executable is compressed using Jeremy Collakes PECompact2, which chopped merrily away at the original ~76k filesize before compression.
To identify whether a correct passphrase has been entered, a SHA-256 hash of the original plaintext is stored in the file header. This is not a security risk as your data cannot be reconstructed from the hash.
WinPT 1.0 RC2
WinPT (Windows Privacy Tools) is a collection of multilingual applications for digital encryption and signing of content more>>
WinPTs individual applications:
- WinPT Tray
- WinPT Explorer Extensions
- WinPT Outlook Express Plugin
- WinPT Eudora Plugin
- WinPT Passphrase Agent
Crypto text 1.5
Crypto text is a little Windows tool which will allow you to encrypt a piece of using the AES (Rijndael) algorithm more>>
Crypto text is a little Windows tool which will allow you to encrypt a piece of using the AES (Rijndael) algorithm. Note - if you are encrypting messages to email to somebody else you will need to have agreed on a passphrase in advance. The program is extremely simple to use, doesnt require any installation and has a nice straightforward interface. And it comes with all the Delphi source code for you to inspect/modify if you desire.
Secrets-Editor 2.1
Secrets-Editor - saves text documents in an encrypted form (passphrase encryption with SHA-1 and AES). more>>
The Secrets-Editor provides common functionality like copy n paste, undo/redo, drag n drop, and a search tool.
When you save a new file for the first time (or when you save an existing file as a new file), you have to specify a so called passphrase (something similar to a password, but a sentence instead of a single word -- so people, who dont remember character combinations, can use a secret sentence instead); this passphrase will then be used for authentification when you open the file again.
System requirements:
- Java RTE
Gizmo Drive 2.5.4
A useful tool that serves two main purposes: virtual CD-ROM drive(ISO/IMG files) and encrypted, virtual hard drive more>>
Main features:
- Mount HD images to a virtual hard drive
- Encrypt HD images using a passphrase
- Protect vital files from hackers using encrypted HD images
- Mount ISO files to a virtual CD-ROM drive
- Mount IMG files to a virtual drive
- Mount and unmount files from the Windows Shell
- Mount and unmount files from the command line
- Support for compression and sparse HD images
Sudowin 0.4.1-r185
Authorized users to launch processes with elevated privileges. more>> Sudo for Windows (sudowin) allows authorized users to launch processes with elevated privileges using their own passphrase. Unlike the runas command, Sudo for Windows preserves the users profile and ownership of created objects.
Sudo for Windows is out-of-the-box configurable. There is not one setting that you cannot change simply by editing a text file. And because of its plugin architecture, anyone with some programming experience can develop custom authentication and authorization plugins, extending its capabilities even further.
Most importantly, Sudo for Windows does not decrease security by creating man-in-the-middle-attacks for malicious users and disgruntled administrators to exploit. Sudo for Windows increases overall security by enabling your entire enterprise to run in Least User Access (LUA) mode.
Sudowin is released under the New BSD License and is free for all to copy and use however they want.<<less
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