You can see it in the picture below highlighted in the yellow area. Beneath that is an option for you to choose whether you would like to apply the change to the folder only, or to the folder as well as any subfolders and files that might be attached to that folder. You could password protect the backup copy, so it requires a password to open the file if you chose to put it in the cloud.
That stops any prying eyes. The file or folder is now encrypted, but unlike when you use BitLocker, there is no padlock image on the file or folder once it is successfully done. Also well worth mentioning is that Windows 10 offers a way for you to always backup what you have just chosen to encrypt by using the Certificate Manager tool known as Crtmgr.
Highlight the certificate that you want to backup. You highlight it by clicking on it once, and you know it is highlighted when it turns a blue color. The Certificate Export Wizard then gives you the option of either exporting the private key or not exporting the private key along with the file or folder.
If you did choose to password protect the file or folder a couple of steps ago, it is here where it now gives you the chance of adding the password to it that you want to help keep it secure. Of course, it goes without saying that BitLocker was a contentious nomination.
More than a few of you touted BitLocker's accessibility and ease of use, and many of you even praised its encryption for being strong and difficult to crack. Many of you noted that you switched to BitLocker after the developers of TrueCrypt suggested it. Others, however, brought up the assertion made from privacy advocates that BitLocker is compromised and has backdoors in place for government security agencies from multiple countries to decrypt your data.
While Microsoft has officially said this isn't true and maintains there's no backdoor in BitLocker while simultaneously maintaining the code as closed source—but available to review by its partners, which include those agencies , the assertion is enough to make more than a few of you shy away. You can read more about the criticism and controversy at the Wikipedia link above, or in the nomination thread here.
While you can install the command line version on some operating systems, most people choose from the dozens of frontends and graphical interfaces for it, including the official releases that can encrypt everything from email to ordinary files to entire volumes. All GnuPG tools support multiple encryption types and ciphers, and generally are capable of encrypting individual files one at a time, disk images and volumes, or external drives and connected media.
A few of you nominated specific GnuPG front-ends in various threads, like the Windows Gpg4Win , which uses Kleopatra as a certificate manager. Those of you who nominated GnuPG praised it for being open-source and accessible through dozens of different clients and tools, all of which can offer file encryption as well as other forms of encryption, like robust email encryption for example. The key, however, is finding a front-end or a client that does what you need it to do and works well with your workflow.
Even though it's amazing at compressing and organizing files for easy storage or sending over the internet, it's also a strong file encryption tool, and is capable of turning individual files or entire volumes into encrypted volumes that only your have the keys to. It's completely free, even for commercial use, supports bit AES encryption, and while the official download is Windows only, there are unofficial builds for Linux and OS X systems as well.
Compressed and encrypted. It's also a powerful command line utility. Those of you who nominated it noted that it may not have the most robust user interface, but it gets the job done, and many of you have it installed anyway specifically for its robust file compression and decompression capabilities.
You noted it's fast, flexible, free, and easy to use, and while it may not be the fastest file encryption tool and it's not capable of whole volume or disk encryption , it gets the job done—especially for encrypting files you need to send to someone else and actually have them be able to access without jumping through too many hoops. Some of you noted that 7-Zip's encrypted volumes are flexible—perhaps too flexible, since new files added to an encrypted archive aren't encrypted you'd have to extract them all and make a new archive for that , but it's otherwise a minor ding.
Now that you've seen the top five, it's time to put them to an all-out vote to determine the community favorite. We have two honorable mentions this week. Disk Utility can also encrypt drives and volumes, and since OS X can create a compressed volume just by right-clicking a file, series of files, or a folder and selecting "Compress," Disk Utility makes encrypting anything you want extremely easy. Plus, it's built in to OS X, so you don't need to install anything else.
You can read more about it in its nomination thread here. Second, we should tip our hats to the venerable old TrueCrypt , our old champion, which actually earned a number of nominations in the call for contenders thread. Besides encryption and decryption, you can import and export public sharing key and export AxCript secret ID and sharing key pair. Note : In this free version of AxCrypt, various advanced features like secured folders , anonymous rename , secure delete , inactivity signout , etc.
You need to buy its premium version to unlock all features of this open source encryptor. TruPax is another one of open source encryption software for Windows. Through this software, you can encrypt files and folders of size up to 1TB. It encrypts data in a single volume or container, which you can also mount and decrypt using software like TrueCrypt or VeraCrypt.
Before performing the encryption, you can modify various available options which affect various container properties like Free Space to add additional space to the container , Label to give a name to the output encrypted container , Write-Protected to make container read-only , Wipe Afterwards to securely remove the original files after creation of the encrypted container , etc.
The decryption process is also quite straightforward. After that, select the output patch and provide the correct password to decrypt files. ProxyCrypt is another software in this list of open source encryption software. It is mainly used for the encryption and management of the virtual drives.
Using this software, you can import all your important data and files to a virtual disk or volume that you can encrypt and unmount or hide from other users for more security. As you do that, a small window with password verification will open. By providing the correct password, you can access all of your data from the volume. PeaZip is a free open source encryption and file archiver software for Windows. Using it, you can easily compress and encrypt files of almost every type and at a very fast rate.
Plus, this software can also integrate itself with Windows Explorer that allows quick encryption and compression of files. Now to encrypt files, launch this software and press the Add button. After that, drop all the files and folders to its interface. From this option, you can also enable Encrypt file names option to hide the original filenames. Lastly, press OK to start the compression and Encryption.
In this file encryption software, you can find many other handy features like Password Manager , File Manager , Bookmark Organizer , File Extractor , etc. CipherShed is the next open source encryption software in this list.
It is a free of charge software through which you can keep your data secure and private. This software is created on the platform of the now discontinued TrueCrypt Project. Instead, you need to first create an encrypted drive where you can add all data that you want to secure. The decryption process is simpler than encryption, as you just need to mount the drive again by pressing the Mount button and by entering right password.
AES Crypt is a lightweight and open source encryption software for Windows.
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