A free Security program for Windows

FineCrypt is a nice, free Windows software, being part of the category Security software with subcategory Encryption and has been created by Finecrypt.

It’s available for users with the operating system Windows 95 and former versions, and you can get it in English. Its current version is 9.1 and the latest update was on 1/25/2006.

Since we added this software to our catalog in 2002, it has obtained 1.496 installations, and last week it gained 3 downloads.

About the download, FineCrypt is a slick program that needs less storage space than the average program in the section Security software. It’s a software very heavily used in many countries such as Russian Federation, India, and Singapore.

Developed by Crypto Systems advanced key management feature. One of the main requirements that has to be met for encryption is a frequent key change. The number of keys grows rapidly so that the user has to maintain a key database and keep count of what key is used for what file. In FineCrypt for the first time we have used technology developed and patented by Crypto Systems that makes it possible to assign a unique key ID to each key and to store this ID with the file. Thus without any compromise of security there is no need to maintain a separate key database. The keys should be kept in one location and FineCrypt will automatically find the required key before decryption.

You can provide for the encryption your own encryption key, which will be used for encryption without any further transformation. Most existing encryption products perform the encryption with a key generated from the user’s passphrase. A user does not even see the key that is used for encryption of confidential information. FineCrypt makes it possible to perform encryption both with the passphrase and with the key specified by user.