25 powerful encryption tools you need to know about

Posted on October 17, 2007
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Instant Messaging:

1. IMsecure: Make your IM conversations safe with IMsecureâ€™s encryption.

Passwords:

2. Password Encryption: Save passwords in an encrypted file. With this program, youâ€™ll only have to remember one password to access the software.
3. RoboForm: Encrypt your passwords with a single password and fight keyloggers by avoiding having to type passwords into a keyboard. You can also make profiles for different people.

VoIP:

4. Zfone: Paul Zimmermanâ€™s Zfone allows to make extremely secure phone calls online. Itâ€™s available as a plugin for existing VoIP programs and can be added by developers to existing VoIP software.

Remote Access:

5. OpenVPN: Get really safe VPN, WiFi, remote access and more with this application. Youâ€™ll only have to use the OpenSSL cryptographic library with OpenVPN.

Email:

6. Private Post Desktop: This software makes it much easier to send safe email. Your recipient will need a simple reader to get emails.
7. Stunnel: This cool SSL wrapper encrypts POP, IMAP, LDAP, and other e-mails without having to change the daemonâ€™s code. Youâ€™ll only need to rely on OpenSSL with this tool.
8. Packman: With Packman, you can encrypt e-mail and attachments as well as files on private servers.
9. Freenigma: In order to effectively encrypt web-based email, use Freenigma. Itâ€™s an absolutely free Firefox plugin, and it supports software like Gmail, Yahoo! and Hotmail.

Chat:

10. TrilogyEC: Safe chat, IM and file transfers with TrilogyEC. This software can be used to talk to up to 5 people at a time.

Communications:

11. OpenSSL: This toolkit introduces the secure sockets layer and transport layer security as well as a cryptography library.
12. OpenSSH: Get rid of the risk of eavesdropping, connection hijacking and password transmission with this program.
13. GnuPG: The GNU Privacy Guard makes data safe and communications with very advanced encryption. You can also use it to make up digital signatures.
14. Tor: Tor make your Internet communications, including web browsing, web publishing, IM, chat, SSH and more anonymous.

Files:

15. FileVault: make up self extracting and self decrypting files. The recipient doesnâ€™t need any software to open these files, just a password.
16. TrueCrypt: Use TrueCrypt to create a virtual encrypted disk that provides numerous levels of protection. This software is supported in Windows Vista, XP, 2000, and Linux.
17. AxCrypt: With AxCrypt, you can encrypt, compress, decrypt, wipe, view, and edit files quickly and easily. This software works with most Windows versions.
18. Kruptos: Use Kruptos to encrypt files on your PC or a portable storage device. With this tool, you can also create files that self-decrypt.

Hard Drive:

19. CryptoExpert: Secure virtual hard drives on your machine with this software. You can password protect the drives and encrypt any files you put in them.

Text:

20. fSekrit: fSekrit encrypts text into its own file, which can then be run off of a USB drive or other storage. This ensures that youâ€™ll never have to store this data un-encrypted on your hard disk.
21. Silver.Zero: With Silver.Zero, you can encrypt text in three different ways.
22. PlainText Crypto: Turn text files into a sequence of digits with PlainText Crypto. This can also be used for emails.

Data:

23. Data Scrambler: DataScrambler turns data into a single bitmap file with the MD5 algorithm.
24. PixelCryptor: Use this encryption tool to encrypt and decrypt data using an image.

Various:

25. Xidie Security Suite: This security suite combines steganography, stretch image, noise, and more.

It is obvious that there are hundreds of very expensive programs that may help you stay safe on the internet, but to me it really makes no sense to overinvest in tools that are similar to thos e that are completely free.

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