BestCrypt, developed b
Jetico
is a commercial disk encryption app available for

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and

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. BestCrypt comes in two editions: BestCrypt Volume Encryption to encrypt entire disk volumes; BestCrypt Container Encryption to encrypt virtual disks stored as computer files. BestCrypt also provides the complimentary

data erasure Data erasure (sometimes referred to as data clearing, data wiping, or data destruction) is a software-based method of overwriting the data that aims to completely destroy all electronic data residing on a hard disk drive or other digital media ...

utility BCWipe.

Cryptographic Algorithms

BestCrypt supports a wide variety of block cipher algorithms including

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Serpent Serpent or The Serpent may refer to: * Snake, a carnivorous reptile of the suborder Serpentes Mythology and religion * Sea serpent, a monstrous ocean creature * Serpent (symbolism), the snake in religious rites and mythological contexts * Serp ...

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Twofish In cryptography, Twofish is a symmetric key block cipher with a block size of 128 bits and key sizes up to 256 bits. It was one of the five finalists of the Advanced Encryption Standard contest, but it was not selected for standardization. Two ...

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Triple DES In cryptography, Triple DES (3DES or TDES), officially the Triple Data Encryption Algorithm (TDEA or Triple DEA), is a symmetric-key block cipher, which applies the DES cipher algorithm three times to each data block. The Data Encryption Stand ...

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. All ciphers support CBC and LRW modes of operation while AES, Twofish and Serpent also support XTS mode.

Features

* Create and mount a

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encrypted using

CAST-128 In cryptography, CAST-128 (alternatively CAST5) is a symmetric-key block cipher used in a number of products, notably as the default cipher in some versions of GPG and PGP. It has also been approved for Government of Canada use by the Communi ...

and various other encryption methods. BestCrypt v.8 and higher can alternatively mount a subfolder on a

NTFS New Technology File System (NTFS) is a proprietary journaling file system developed by Microsoft. Starting with Windows NT 3.1, it is the default file system of the Windows NT family. It superseded File Allocation Table (FAT) as the preferred f ...

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 Multi-factor authentication (MFA; encompassing two-factor authentication, or 2FA, along with similar terms) is an electronic authentication method in which a user is granted access to a website or application only after successfully presenting ...

. * Support for size-efficient Dynamic Containers with the Smart Free Space Monitoring technology. * Hardware accelerated encryption. * Anti-keylogging facilities to protect container and volume passwords. *

Data erasure Data erasure (sometimes referred to as data clearing, data wiping, or data destruction) is a software-based method of overwriting the data that aims to completely destroy all electronic data residing on a hard disk drive or other digital media ...

utility BCWipe to erase unprotected copies of data to complement encryption. *

Secret sharing Secret sharing (also called secret splitting) refers to methods for distributing a secret among a group, in such a way that no individual holds any intelligible information about the secret, but when a sufficient number of individuals combine th ...

and

Public Key Public-key cryptography, or asymmetric cryptography, is the field of cryptographic systems that use pairs of related keys. Each key pair consists of a public key and a corresponding private key. Key pairs are generated with cryptographic a ...

authentication methods in addition to basic password-based authentication. BestCrypt Volume Encryption v.3.png, BestCrypt Volume Encryption v.3 main window BestCrypt for Mac.png, BestCrypt for Mac v.1.3 control panel

References

External links

* {{Official, https://www.jetico.com/data-encryption Disk encryption Cryptographic software

Cryptographic Algorithms

Features

See also

References

Further reading

External links