Gizmo's Freeware: AxCrypt. It's Good And Bad News

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AxCrypt. It's Good And Bad News Posted: 27 Jun 2014 02:40 AM PDT Last week I recommended that you take a look at Cryptainer if you need a replacement for the now-defunct TrueCrypt encryption product. A handful of people have suggested that another free program, AxCrypt, is also a suitable replacement, and I promised to take a look at it. So here goes. AxCrypt is free, and and is a 3.3 MB download. and should install on all recent versions of Windows. Unlike TrueCrypt, which creates virtual encrypted drives, AxCrypt works on individual files. If you want to encrypt multiple files, you'll need to do them one at a time, or add them to a zip file and then encrypt the zip. Which, if you've got lots of files but only a handful of them are confidential, actually works very well. Just right-click a confidential file, choose the Encrypt option, and you're done. To open the file with whatever app it's associated with, double-click it as normal, and enter the password when prompted. However, while AxCrypt provides useful features, it fails one of the key tests here at Gizmo's. here's why: http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/axcrypt-its-good-and-bad-news.htm

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