How to use
While reading data from magnetic media, Secure Disk decrypts data and stores it in RAM. When the OS, in its turn, records data, the application breaks the process, encrypts data and then stores it in HDD.
This instant and user-hidden process doesn't affect the processing speed. You don't have to encrypt the data, the application will do it for you.
Using applications that don't encrypt the whole OS, but create encrypted containers on your hard disc, you may become a hostage to the specifics of OS Windows. It means that OS Windows XP stores logs of your computer activity, such as visit logs in the IE history, your email and site paswords, so if a fraudster gains access to your hard disc, he can easily read your email or the Internet messenger correspondence. He may see sites you visited and get your passwords. If the data was encrypted, the fraudster can gain access to the key container and then crack the main container.
Our application encrypts the whole disk, so even if it is removed, your data is inaccessible.
Using our application it's important to remember:
- Never forget your password! It's the most important thing. Please Note: if you have forgotten your password, you'll not be able to restore data.
- Never use vulnerable passwords, names and dates of birth. A secure password must consist of at least 10 characters and includes different letter cases and figures. For example, the password K3ap5MoZn3 will be highly secure. At the same time this password can be easily forgotten that can lead to the issue mentioned in item 1.
- After creating a key you have to store it in the file. This file can be both graphical (jpg, bmp) and sound (wav, mp3). When you look for the key container you should choose among bulky files with a lot "noise". For example, if it's a photo it should be of a low quality or with multicoloured objects. Sound files should be multifrequent with radio noise.
- Surely you needn't name this file as "keystore.jpg" or "key.mp3". You shouldn't store the keys separately from the other files.
You should copy your file with the key on the disk and keep it in the safe place.
- If your data is very precious you should back up it on the encrypted flash disk or HDD. The backup copy can be stored anywhere. This item is very essential for working with top-important info (encrypted and non-encrypted) because a hard drive disk is a piece of metal that can be broken any time. Even the disk isn't encrypted you may lose all the data. If the encrypted disk is physically broken, it'll be more difficult to restore data (on condition you have the key).
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