File Encryption

In the age of digital era, personal data can be stolen, intercepted, compromised and exposed to unauthorized parties. A new age digital thieves can intercept our communication and read our personal correspondence, they can even remotely get access to our personal files on our computers, and dig out our credit card or social security numbers, bank account information or any other personal data we have on our hard drives or removable media, documents, files, video or audio footage etc.

Encryption software is software whose main task is encryption and decryption of data, usually in the form of files on (or sectors of) hard drives and removable media, email messages, or in the form of packets sent over computer networks.

PGP Corporation is a global leader in email and data encryption software for Enterprise Data Protection. Based on a unified key management and policy infrastructure, the PGP® Encryption Platform offers the broadest set of integrated applications for enterprise data security. PGP® platform-enabled applications allow organizations to meet current needs and expand as security requirements change for email, laptops, desktops, instant messaging, smart phones, network storage, file transfers, automated processes, and backups. PGP® encryption solutions have earned a reputation for innovative, standards-based, trusted solutions currently used by more than 110,000 enterprises, businesses, and governments worldwide, including 96 percent of the Fortune® 100, 74 percent of Fortune® Global 100, 80 percent of the German DAX Index and 71 percent of the United Kingdom FTSE 100 Index. Customers depend on PGP solutions as part of a regulatory and audit compliance solution, to protect confidential information, secure customer data, and safeguard companies' brands and reputations.

PGP products are designed to be both user- and network-friendly. They have earned a reputation for excellence based on their high technical standards and the practical experience of long-term users. PGP Corporation is committed to standards-based, nonproprietary technologies, ensuring broad compatibility among deployments. In addition, PGP Corporation is the only commercial security vendor to publish its product source code for peer review.

TrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume (data storage device). On-the-fly encryption means that data is automatically encrypted or decrypted right before it is loaded or saved, without any user intervention. No data stored on an encrypted volume can be read (decrypted) without using the correct password/keyfile(s) or correct encryption keys. Entire file system is encrypted (e.g., file names, folder names, contents of every file, free space, meta data, etc).

Files can be copied to and from a mounted TrueCrypt volume just like they are copied to/from any normal disk (for example, by simple drag-and-drop operations). Files are automatically being decrypted on the fly (in memory/RAM) while they are being read or copied from an encrypted TrueCrypt volume. Similarly, files that are being written or copied to the TrueCrypt volume are automatically being encrypted on the fly (right before they are written to the disk) in RAM. Note that this does not mean that the whole file that is to be encrypted/decrypted must be stored in RAM before it can be encrypted or decrypted. There are no extra memory (RAM) requirements for TrueCrypt.