Cryptic Disk 5.3.2 for Windows

Protect your disks or disk partitions by encrypting them with Cryptic Disk 2.5

Cryptic Disk provides a simple and affordable way to protect disks and disk partitions by encrypting them. The encrypted data cannot be accessed without entering the password, even if a hacker gets access to a PC or the hard drive is stolen.

The program uses the AES 256-bit encryption algorithm, the same encryption NASA, the FBI and the Department of Defense uses to protect their data. Encrypting/decrypting takes one click. Free download.

As professional disk encryption software safeguarding data on any type of drive, Cryptic Disk will be a reliable defense for your files regardless of where they are located. The program can create virtual encrypted disks as well as encrypt physical hard disks (in their entirety or just certain partitions), USB drives and memory cards.

Data are encrypted using the most reliable modern algorithms (AES/Rijndael, Serpent, Twofish, Blowfish, CAST6) with support for XTS mode, which was specially developed for encrypting data on disk drives. Transparent encryption allows working with an encrypted disk just like with any other one, without the computer's performance being impacted in the slightest.

Features of Cryptic Disk

• Ability to mount an encrypted container/disk using any free drive letter or an empty folder on an NTFS disk.
• Ability to use the disk encryption software on a computer without installing it beforehand (portable mode).
• Configurable automatic actions when an encrypted disk is mounted or dismounted: play a WAV file, or launch a program or script in the following languages: CMD Shell, Windows Scripts and PowerShell.
• Creation of virtual encrypted disks from container files and mounting them as separate disks.
• Deniable Encryption so that encrypted volumes do not contain any signatures which could be used to prove that they are encrypted disks or containers.
• Encryption of whole disk partitions (internal and removable) as well as other drives (memory cards, pen drives, USB drives and more) without losing information.
• Plausible Deniability, which allows creating hidden encrypted disks multiply nested inside of each other (steganography).
• Powerful protection from brute force password attacks (both dictionary attacks and true brute force attacks) in accordance with PKCS #5 v2
• Reliable protection from keyloggers (built-in virtual keyboard for entering passwords).
• Support for cascade encryption (use of multiple cryptographic algorithms to encrypt data in sequence) to improve the cryptographic strength provided by the disk encryption software, increasing encryption key size from 256 to 2944 bits in XTS mode.
• Support for different cryptographic algorithms to encrypt data: AES/Rijndael, Serpent, Twofish, Blowfish, CAST6
• Support for using different algorithms for header key derivation: HMAC-SHA2-512, HMAC-SHA3-512, HMAC-RIPEMD-256, HMAC-Whirlpool.
• Support for using key files together with a password or instead of a password, offering users flexibility in how they deploy the disk encryption software.
• Transparent (on-the-fly) data encryption which takes place in real time and does not affect computer performance.
• Use of XTS data encryption mode, developed specially for disk encryption (IEEE 1619 standard).

Compatibility and License

This download is licensed as shareware for the Windows operating system from data encryption software and can be used as a free trial until the trial period ends (after an unspecified number of days). The Cryptic Disk 5.3.2 demo is available to all software users as a free download with potential restrictions and is not necessarily the full version of this software.

What version of Windows can Cryptic Disk run on?

Cryptic Disk can be used on a computer running Windows 11 or Windows 10. Previous versions of the OS shouldn't be a problem with Windows 8 and Windows 7 having been tested. It comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit downloads.

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