BestCrypt 8.20 is a File Encryption product from jetico.com, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, BestCrypt program keeps your confidential data in a powerfully encrypted form on your disk and provides you with transparent access to the data from any application. BestCrypt program family includes the following products:

BestCrypt creates and supports encrypted virtual disks. These disks are visible as regular disks with correspondent drive letters. The data stored on a BestCrypt disk is stored in the container file. A container is a file, so it is possible to backup a container, move or copy it to other disk (CD-ROM or network, for instance) and continue to access your encrypted data using BestCrypt. Any free drive letter in the system may be used to mount and to open an encrypted file-container for access. When the virtual disk is opened, you can read and write data as if it were a conventional removable disk.

This data encryption program allows you to allocate a portion of free space on your drive where you keep all your sensitive data in encrypted form. Data written there is encrypted on-the-fly. It includes AES, Blowfish, Twofish, GOST and DES encryption algorithms, and has time-out and hotkey options. BestCrypt includes a file wiping utility is included allowing you to wipe files, free space, swap file and file slacks so that nobody can restore your files later. This version includes support for Windows XP, swap file encryption, and a hidden container feature.

The data stored on a BestCrypt disk is stored in the container file. A container is a file, so it is possible to backup a container, move or copy it to other disk (CD-ROM or network, for instance) and continue to access your encrypted data using BestCrypt.

Any free drive letter in the system may be used to mount and to open an encrypted file-container for access. As well, with BestCrypt v.8 you can mount file-container as a subfolder on NTFS disk. When the virtual disk is opened, you can read and write data as if it were a conventional removable disk.

BestCrypt provides users with a higher security level as well as with a set of new functions. Besides, there are several ways of encrypting data in version 8:

Storing encrypted data in containers and accessing the data through virtual drives (as earlier versions of the program do);
Encrypting set of files into a single compressed and, if needed, self-extracting archive (read more information in BCArchive article);
Encrypting and accessing transparently whole Windows partitions/volumes (read more information in BestCrypt Volume Encryption article). The license of this file & disk software is Free Trial Software, the price is $59.95, you can free download and get a free trial before you buy. If you want to get a full or nolimited version of BestCrypt, you can buy this file & disk software.