Crypt3 4+

The program so far works great . However inspite of the fact that the developer has stated that this program encrypts files and folders only , I found that i could drop my whole USB drive into Crypt3 and it seemed to be working. It took a lot of time naturally but after it was over the drive was completely clean and wiped with no encrypt file anywhere. I just emailed the developer to find out if my being able to drop the drive was jus a bug or does Crypt3 put the encrypted volume file some where else .

I have had crypt for two years, and when Apple Mac OS Mountain Lion came out, it was not compatible at first but within two weeks or so, the developer of this great app, had a fix for it, and I had a flexible, and one of the FEW…., MAC OS X, 256 bit AES, DOD, encryption, that you can drag and drop, a file or folder onto, the app, when launched. And any password, you choose, of course, be wise, use an 8 character alpha numeric at least, however, it can be any combination. The best part is, no-one can crack these 256 bit files with a good password on them, and you can even re-encrypt the file a second or third time, and so on. Whether it is audio, video, graphic, or text, etc, the file will becorrctly decrypted, and untouchable, by anyone. Just make sure you keep that password, backed up somewhere. For the low price, and flexibility and reliability I give this a 5 star rating.

I had been a customer of Crypt since before it came to the MAS, and I can tell you it was well worth the $10 he used to charge for it. I paid it happily because it filled a niche not occupied by other apps. Sure, File Vault is great…if you want to encrypt your whole drive. But if you want to do it on a file-by-file (or folder-by-folder) basis? And you perhaps want to have different passwords for different files/folders? Crypt is the perfect tool.

And now, I see Dekorte has gone and open-sourced it and made it free. That’s an outstanding response to the now year-old revelations of pervasive data surveillance by the government. What a stand-up act on his part. If this were still a paid app, I’d say spend the money without hesitation. As it is, I’d say do yourself a favor and grab this excellent little app for free.