Free file encryption software?

peter999

Blacksheep1979 wrote: »

go on then give me an 8 letter one using only alphanumeric characters and I'll have a crack (sorry for the pun) at some point today/tomorrow.

PM sent, good luck. :T

peter999

leaphaze

LittleJo wrote: »

Hi,
When I was on WIN98 I used SCRAMDISK which was brilliant and dead easy. It did not work on WINXP, which I now have. Anybody know of anything similar as the ones mentioned here are encryption , SCRAMDISK was a series of hidden volumes that files could be hidden in.
Jo

I used ScramDisk on ME. Since upgrading to XP I've moved to TrueCrypt, which does everything ScramDisk did. Recommended!

Blacksheep1979

still waiting for that 'encrypted' file...

peter999

Blacksheep1979 wrote: »

still waiting for that 'encrypted' file...

Files were sent 21/6 to email address you sent.
I'll send again now, check any junk mail folders.

peter999

Ps: Files sent again.

Ramz_3

I use TrueCrypt.
It creates a virtual drive on your pc, and stores files on there.

No complaints, failed to find anything wrong with it so far.

wolfman

The weakness with the WinZip implementation of AES in not in the password. So BlackSheep wouldn't be able to tell you it, but he'd still be able to get at your zip. In fact all or most of the tools that brute force WinZip aren't actually brute forcing the password, but instead the poorly generated random string that accompanies the AES encryption. So you could have a 128-bit password, but someone would still be able to break the zip in hours due to a weakness elsewhere.

espresso

peter999 wrote: »

Files sent again.

Why don't you post a link to where the file can be downloaded?

peter999

espresso wrote: »

Why don't you post a link to where the file can be downloaded?

Encrypted WinZip test files.

See if you can recover the passwords for a challenge to test WinZip encryption using any password recovery tools or methods.

3x WinZip files with 3 levels of WinZip encryption (https://www.winzip.com)
Passwords are 8 alpahnumeric character length.

file1 - Zip2 encryption (1.01MB)
file2 - 128 bit AES encryption (134KB)
file3 - 256 bit AES encryption (27.9KB)

Download links:
http://us.f13.yahoofs.com/bc/46863aac_f03b/bc/WinZip+test+files/WinZip_Zip2_encryption.ZIP?bfutmhGBOdjhM1ff

http://us.f13.yahoofs.com/bc/46863aac_f03b/bc/WinZip+test+files/WinZip_128bitAES_encryption.zip?bfutmhGBjwDBHYEh

http://us.f13.yahoofs.com/bc/46863aac_f03b/bc/WinZip+test+files/WinZip_256bitAES_encryption.zip?bfutmhGBu8enUOuY

PM me passwords so as not to spoil challenge for anyone else. :T

Good luck
peter999

Links updated 3:23pm

superscaper

peter999 wrote: »

PM me passwords so as not to spoil challenge for anyone else. :T

I guess you missed reading Wolfman's post.

wolfman

The links don't work for me. I just get a "Page Cannot Be Displayed" error.