Blowfish Advanced manages to provide the user with several security and encryption features that I have not seen before in one utility. The first purpose of Blowfish Advanced is to encrypt – and decrypt – files offering eight different encryption algorithms, three data compression algorithms and keys with a length of up to 1024 bit.
It integrates itself seamlessly into the Windows Explorer context menu offering fast access to encrypting and decrypting functions. One interesting feature is to divide the password to decrypt files. It is for instance possible to save 50% of the password on a keydisk and 50% as a password that you have to remember. A file could only be decrypted if the keydisks would be accessible and if the correct password would be entered.
Another application would be to share the password between users which would mean that all users had to enter their part of the password to decrypt the file or folder that had been encrypted before.
Another interesting feature is the ability to wipe files and free disk space. If you want to make sure that “normal” users can’t recover files that you deleted you should use this option. Recovery tools like Recuva will not be able to recover files that have been wiped using this methods.
A pretty unique feature is the ability to change the algorithm that has been used to encrypt the files and folders. This could be useful if someone would have detected a method to defeat an algorithm to ensure the safety of the files.
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I’ve been using this program (occasionally) for years. It’s very good. Just be sure that if you are choosing an extra-long password, for better security, that you can actually remember it…. (which is easier said than done)