{"id":51,"date":"2010-02-15T11:17:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T11:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timbrison.wordpress.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2010-02-15T11:17:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T11:17:15","slug":"kruptos-saves-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/02\/kruptos-saves-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Kruptos saves the day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping all my data safe from thieves and vagabonds has been interesting, to say the least, for a number of years now. Generally, <a title=\"TrueCrypt.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truecrypt.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">TrueCrypt<\/a> has been the defacto standard for file and folder encryption, for free.<\/p>\n<p>However, I have been looking at a new (to me), encryption program called &#8220;Kruptos 2&#8221;, which solves a problem the mighty TrueCrypt can&#8217;t handle:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Totally self contained and self decrypting archives!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Kruptos 2 has the ability to turn a file into a self decrypting archive, which can be used on machines that do <em><strong>not <\/strong><\/em>have Kruptos installed.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, you can create a truly portable &#8216;secret file&#8217; which can be unencrypted on the fly &#8211; without having to install Kruptos on the host machine &#8211; fantastic!<\/p>\n<p>Only time will tell if this app catches on but previously the only thing close, was Steganos &#8216;Locknote&#8217; &#8211; which only delt with text files &#8211; Kruptos deals with any file type. Though not free, $9 is a really small fee for this type of functionality &#8211; and with a month to try it out for free, you can&#8217;t really lose!<\/p>\n<p>Check them out at http:\/\/www.kruptos2.co.uk\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping all my data safe from thieves and vagabonds has been interesting, to say the least, for a number of years now. Generally, TrueCrypt has been the defacto standard for file and folder encryption, for free. However, I have been looking at a new (to me), encryption program called &#8220;Kruptos 2&#8221;, which solves a problem <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/02\/kruptos-saves-the-day\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[85,33],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-encryption","tag-kruptos-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}