Sunday, December 02, 2012

How to Secure Files And Communications



People are working around to make their files and communications more and more safer than their other things by using passwords, long and complex passwords with special characters and many more techniques but the experts proved that this is not the only thing you should do to save your files and important data. Not so long ago, computer enthusiasts have proved to retrieve an eight letter password by use of a GPU in three days. Makes you wonder how safe your data is. In PixelCryptor you choose a picture and use it to combine your files into a package. The pixel data is used to encrypt your data. The combinations are endless and hard to break. Nowadays people have not one, but dozens of passwords. It can be hard to remember them, and you might lose precious data when you forget them. PixelCryptor offers a solution.
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Encryption has been used for as long as people have been talking and wishing to keep their communications secret. Examples range from trans- position Cyphers used by the Spartan military to more modern techniques like DES and AES.

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A picture tells a thousand words, Complex encryption, yet user friendly
PixelCryptor offers an easy to use wizard to guide you  through the process of encryption and decryption. You are free to encrypt as many files you like. Be sure to save yourpicture, because just like passwords, when the key is gone the package is locked for good. No backdoor, workaround or crowbar will get you in.
Note: This software is free to use by the given terms of useLicense Agreement

KGB Archiver Download


KGB Archiver: Compress 1GB File to 10MB

KGB Archiver is free and open source software which compresses 1GB file to 10MB file. Data compression utility of this software is based on PAQ6 algorithm which has AES-256 powerful encryption. KGB archiver works on both Windows and Linux operating system. Compression ratio of this software is very high. Due to high compression levels, time to compress a file goes high as the size of the file increases and compression ratio may  vary depending on the format of the file.
When a file is compressed with KGB Archiver it saves it with own extension and at the time of decompression it automatically recognizes the file format. The only limitation of KGB archiver is, decompressed file cannot be open or extract with other compression softwares. You can also choose any compression level (high, maximum, normal, low, very weak) to compress a file but the compression time  will vary according to your selected compression level.
Note: If you are compressing any file with KGB archiver and sending the comprssed file to your friends then he must have KBG archiver installed on his computer to decompress the file.
System Requirements:
Due to high compression ratio of KGB archiver, you need to have a decent system hardware configuration
  • 256 MB RAM
  • 1.5 GHz Processor
Features of KGB Archiver

  • Supports native .kgb files and .zip files
  • AES-256 Encryption
  • Able to create self-extracting archives.
  • Multilanguage supports like Arabic, German, Greek, Japanese, Spanish many more.
  • Unicode is supported in both User Interface and File Systems.
  • An Explorer shell extension is available for the windows version.
  • Make Password protected compressed file.


Note: This KBG Archiver software cannot compress video format files.