This is the first day of the second half of the Ghacks Christmas Giveaway. You can expect the same quality in the coming twelve days. We made lots of Ghacks readers happy by sending them licenses to commercial software products that we personally love and can fully recommend to anyone. Today’s software was donated by SecurStar, developers of the encryption software DriveCrypt.
DriveCrypt is a 1344 Bit disk encryption software using cryptographic algorithms such as AES, Blowfish or Tea 32 that can encrypt partitions, entire hard drives (with the exception of the boot drive) and USB devices. Besides that it can also create encrypted containers on storage devices so that only part of the space is reserved for the encrypted data.
DriveCrypt makes use of on-the-fly decryption to ensure that only the data that is currently needed resides in the computer’s memory to minimize the risk if someone would record and analyse the data in memory.
DriveCrypt is compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista. Installation is flawless as is the setup of the encrypted storage space. The software starts in simple mode which reduces the elements on the screen to a bare minimum. Experienced users can switch to the advanced mode which is providing them with more options in the interface.
The Simple Mode basically consists of four buttons which are used to create and manage data safes. It is possible to create a new safe, load an existing safe, dismount all safes or to scan for safes on the computer system.
There are usually no safes after the installation and it is up to the user to create the first encrypted safe. It is necessary to define a few parameters like the size of the container and the password but basically anything else including the algorithm is selected by the software program. It is possible to use a normal password or one that spans across four lines to increase security.
The advanced mode provides all the missing options for experienced users. They can select the file system and the encryption algorithm. The ability to create a encrypted partition is only available in the advanced mode like several other options:
- Invisible Containers: Create hidden containers in encrypted containers.
- Hide Data In Music Files: Add data to music files
- Hot Disk Encryption: Encrypt removable devices and make the data inaccessible once their are unplugged from the computer system.
- Password Security: Master Password for administrators, Restricted second user Passwords
and Second user Password Expiration - Password Sniffing Protection: protects against password sniffers like trojans or keyloggers.
- Anti Dictionary or Brute Force Attack mechanism: Slows down brute force attacks.
- Disk Wiping: DriveCrypt is able to delete the free space on a storage device so that the data is not recoverable.
- External Hardware Support: Works with fingerprint and smartcard readers, as well as USB token
- Works on any Storage Medium: Works on hard drives, removable devices including CDs and DVDs, basically anything that can be used to store data.
DriveCrypt offers an easy way to create encrypted containers for data on their storage devices. You can win one out of 50 licenses for DriveCrypt by writing a comment below.
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I am too a user of TrueCrypt, but i surely will love to have a software like this one! Make me lucky again Martin! ;-) thanks for this another nice giveaway!
Oh thx i wish i’ll get lucky and win a licence.
It would be great if I could win one of the licenses. Thanks!
I’d like to try this.
it’s the program i need!
Count me in. Thanks.
Count me in on one of these licenses also! Thanks!
Great peace of software. It really seems easy to use and it’s definitely useful. I want one of those (and hey, technically, if no one else post, we’re all winners. 50 licenses!)
Count me in on this =]
Let’s see if I’m lucky. So far, no winnings in this “competition”.. :(
never tried to use anything like this…. i hope i can have this one….. ty
I would also like to know how this compares with TrueCrypt. I guess if I win, I can try it out and do the comparison myself :)
never tried this but its some thing i need please count me in
sorry but truecrypt is good enough for me. and I can upgrade it.
Oh yes please, I could do with that…… the lurker.
Interesting.
Anyhow, I’m waiting for the next generation of on-the-fly encryption programs, which work on files only instead of whole drives.
This is very important since the many web applications (opendrive,dropbox,sincplicity that) that today raise serious privacy problems.
Looks great
Count Me In!!
This would be great – potential significant improvements over what I’m using now.
Count me in, please! Thanks!
I believe in Santa!He is real!
Groovy.
Hi,
Can I get one license ?
Thanx
Cool Software! Count me in on this.
Wonder what it’ll do when I try to use my Windows encrypted USB on a Linux box? Be interesting to experiment.
spooky :-)
this sounds like just what I need now that I carry my laptop everywhere I go.
Hi,
I used to rely on Cryptainer but it has some annoying bugs that wouldn’t be fixed. So please count me in. Thanks.
Sounds cool
I think today is the day!