What's new in USBCrypt 18.5.1
Jun 1, 2018
- This update adds support for the SHA3 and SHA2 hash algorithms for derivation of the encryption key, in addition to the SHA2 Combo algorithm used in the previous versions of USBCrypt.
New in USBCrypt 16.10.1 (Oct 27, 2016)
- This update enables the use of USBCrypt on clean installations of Windows 10 build 1607 and Windows Server 2016 with Secure Boot enabled.
New in USBCrypt 16.6.1 (Jun 20, 2016)
- The administrator approval is now required not only when creating a new Virtual Encrypted Disk, but also when deleting or updating an existing one.
- A new option has been added, Split the host file into segments.
- Several other minor improvements have been made.
New in USBCrypt 15.8.1 (Aug 11, 2015)
- USBCrypt is now officially certified by Microsoft as software compatible with Windows 10.
- Several other minor improvements have been made.
New in USBCrypt 15.4.1 (Apr 14, 2015)
- Full support for the exFAT file system, on those versions of Windows that offer exFAT support.
- A new command, PANIC, has been added to the USBCrypt notification icon menu.
- When creating a new Virtual Encrypted Disk, the name you have chosen for the disk is now used as the drive label of the Virtual Encrypted Disk. Note that if you chose to format the drive with the FAT or exFAT file system, and the name is longer than 11 characters, it will be truncated at 11th character, due to the limitations of the FAT/exFAT file systems.
- A new Group Policy has been added to the Administrator's Kit that enables the administrator to hide the license key information on the About USBCrypt window.
- The look of the main window of USBCrypt has been changed to give the 'flat' appearance.
- Several other minor improvements have been made.
New in USBCrypt 14.60.0 (Jun 6, 2014)
- A problem has been corrected that caused Windows to display an error message when using the System Image backup program of Windows even though no Virtual Encrypted Disks have been started.
- Several other minor improvements have been made.
New in USBCrypt 13.11.1 (May 15, 2014)
- A new format for the Virtual Encrypted Disks that allows for encrypting drives as large as 128 TB (tera-bytes).
- An option to skip encrypting the empty space of the drive, that dramatically increases the speed of the initial drive encryption. For example, while the previous version could take several hours to encrypt a large drive, now the same process takes less than a minute!
- When stopping a Virtual Encrypted Disk that is still in use, you can now see which processes still have the files open on that disk, and stop or even terminate them directly.
- If the host disk encounters an error while reading or writing the encrypted data, USBCrypt now notifies you immediately, by displaying a popup "balloon" in the taskbar notification area.
- Many other improvements "under the hood", that make USBCrypt even faster and more reliable than before.
New in USBCrypt 10.9 (Sep 17, 2010)
- In some usage scenarios, the Optimize for performance option could cause 100% of the available RAM to be consumed. We have corrected that.
- When encrypting a drive, the size of the Virtual Encrypted Disk can now be selected using units other than MB.
- The size of the Virtual Encrypted Disk is now displayed when choosing the Properties command from the taskbar icon right-click menu.