CryptoCrat 2003 is a program for protecting your important documents by storing it in single encrypted file ("archive"). The program gives out a single encrypted archive containing confidential files and directories. Access to the archive is realized by means of a password. A powerful built-in data compression algorithm, exceeding WinZip in power. An ability to create self-extracting compressed archives. Blowfish, a powerful encryption algorithm with 448 bit key is used. An opportunity to wipe/shred files from. Convenient and customary interface looking like Windows Explorer. New ability: transparent support for ZIP archives and ability to explore it like any standard folder, extract ZIP file contents and create own ZIP files.
While it is well known that letters can be intercepted and phone lines can be tapped, it is not so well known that even e-mails can be easily read. In fact it is commonly believed that the login password provides privacy and security.
This is not actually so!
Any employee of the Internet Service Provider (ISP) that you you use, can tap into your e-mail at your end or that of the recipient with the use of fairly basic equipment. Tapping can also be done by anyone who links up to the dozens of Internet routers through which your message passes.
The mail can even be accessed by someone at the phone company's office or a hacker who taps in through them.
There are also a number of more sophisticated methods and a wide range of equipment by which all electronic communication can be intercepted. These are used primarily by government agencies, but can also be employed by business rivals and competitors.

What is encryption?
Encrypting data means getting it transformed into a string of characters undecipherable by others.
What actually happens is that by using a secret-key i.e. the equivalent of a code (see glossary), the cryptography system transforms your data into gibberish. If the scrambling of the data is done properly, the original file can only be unscrambled and read by someone who knows the secret key i.e. the code used to encrypt the file.
Encrypting a file ensures that even if someone gets access to your computers he would not be able to read the data stored there. Encrypted files can safely be sent by e-mail or placed on a network with the assurance that the data can be read only by those who were meant to have it.
Basic encryption systems have been used to protect secrets for many centuries. But today's encryption methods are far more sophisticated and reliable than ever before because the encryption code itself is a very complex computational transformation that is only feasible with desktop machines in the early 1990s

What can I do to be safe?
Each time you work with sensitive data, or wish to communicate with someone else confidentially, you must use CryptoCrat 2002 to protect your files. (The Help Menu provides a step-by-step guide of how this is to be done).
Ensure that all you stored information is also encrypted so that it is safe from the eyes of snoopers, competitors or uninvited investigators.
And when getting rid of old files or data, don't just delete them, use the built in Shred function in the program to be absolutely safe.

Why CryptoCrat 2002?
Easy in use

Handy interface like Windows Explorer

An ability to work with several files/directories simultaneously

An ability to store numerous confidential files and directories in a single encrypted archive file

Files encryption is executed with Blowfish, the most powerful to date encryption algorithm using 448 bit key

Statistically impregnable against brute force attacks (at least 1032 billions years for the fastest computer in existence to break the key - the age of the universe is 1018 billions years). For encryption and protection your important documents, CryptoCrat 2002 uses strong crypto algorithms DES with 128 bit and Blowfish with 448 bit keys

Built in file shredder - i.e. wiping the contents of the original pre-encrypted file beyond recovery to make sure that not even a trace remains after shredding. (matching and exceeding the specifications of the U.S. Department of Defense) to stop hardware recovery tools.

Built in compression of files to reduce size in transmission. A special feature, which allows using data compression during the encryption process. We use our own compression algorithm, which exceeds WinZip by compression rate.

No "back door" in the software - No access possible under any circumstances. If you do not remember the password you cannot access the encrypted contents. There is no special procedure, secret code, or hidden entry method to fall back on.

CryptoCrat 2002 encrypts every kind of file on every kind of medium, whether floppy disk, removable hard drive, zip drive, tape drive or other

Self-extracting encrypted archives creating feature. This allows you e-mail the only *.exe file containing encrypted confidential data securely to your partners without any danger of interception by third persons. For all that, your file recipient does not need to use the same program in order to extract the encrypted files, for your archive will self-extract.

The only requirement for self-extracting files is that the recipients must be running some form of Microsoft Windows. All they need is a key to access the contents i.e. a totally secure system is possible without any modification of existing mail systems using any mail system that supports file attachments.

An opportunity to associate a special tip with your password. This tip will help you remember your password in case you forgot it.

An ability to sign your archives (that means to insert your author's data into it)

Powerful and handly program's interface styled like Windows Explorer

CryptoCrat is the Shareware version. The full version can be purchased by clicking on the "CLICK HERE TO ORDER" button below for around  30USD.