BestCrypt
Commercial disk encryption app available for Windows, Linux, macOS and Android From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BestCrypt, developed by Jetico, is a commercial disk encryption app available for Windows, Linux, macOS and Android.[3]
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 BestCrypt for Windows v9.0 | |
| Developer(s) | Jetico Inc. Oy |
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| Initial release | 1995[1] |
| Stable release | 9.08.4
/ May 25, 2023 |
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| Size | 5.6–52.3 MB |
| Available in | English, Arabic, Chinese simplified, Czech, Dutch, Persian, French, German, Italian, Latvian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish |
| Type | Disk encryption software |
| License | Trialware |
| Website | www |
BestCrypt comes in two editions: BestCrypt Volume Encryption to encrypt entire disk volumes;[4] BestCrypt Container Encryption to encrypt virtual disks stored as computer files.[5]
BestCrypt also provides the complimentary data erasure utility BCWipe.[6]
Cryptographic Algorithms
BestCrypt supports a wide variety of block cipher algorithms including AES, Serpent, Blowfish, Twofish, DES, Triple DES, GOST 28147-89. All ciphers support CBC and LRW modes of operation while AES, Twofish and Serpent also support XTS mode.
Features
- Create and mount a virtual drive encrypted using AES, Blowfish, Twofish, CAST-128[7] and various other encryption methods. BestCrypt v.8 and higher can alternatively mount a subfolder on a NTFS disk instead of a drive. Encrypted virtual disk images are compatible across Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
- Encrypt a set of files into a single, self-extracting archive.
- Transparently encrypt entire partitions or volumes together with pre-boot authentication for encrypted boot partitions.
- Two-factor authentication.
- Support for size-efficient Dynamic Containers with the Smart Free Space Monitoring technology.[8]
- Hardware accelerated encryption.
- Anti-keylogging facilities to protect container and volume passwords.
- Data erasure utility BCWipe to erase unprotected copies of data to complement encryption.
- Secret sharing and Public Key authentication methods in addition to basic password-based authentication.
BestCrypt Volume Encryption v.3 main window
BestCrypt for Mac v.1.3 control panel
See also
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