SecureFile is an software designed to provide the end user with a highly impactful means of securing data on their computer. The software accomplishes this through encrypting the targeted file using a multi-layer approach that the end user controls. For each step of the encryption process, the user has a choice of six different encryption options that are described later in this document.

Key Benefits
1. Supports up to four layers of encryption.
2. Choose from six different encryption methods for each layer.
3. Efficient use of system resources.

Microsoft Windows provides an easy and fairly impactful way of encrypting files just by changing a file's properties from Explorer? The answer to this is really simple. There are three fairly obvious reasons why you shouldn't. The first is that if anyone can learn your Windows login and password, they can easily access your 'protected' files. The next reason is that if you directly copy the file to another machine and leave the encryption on, you may not be able to access the data yourself, even if you have the same login and password on the other computer. The third obvious reason is that the Microsoft documentation for the Application Program Interface (API) of the backup functions state the encrypted files are intentionally skipped.
Of all of the other reasons, the best one is that if you want to send a file to someone and you want no one else to access it. An example of this would be an attorney communicating with a client via email. Yes, it is possible to send a file through any one of many email programs and encrypt it with both a private key (one that only the sender knows) and a public, or shared, key that is known to both the sender and the receiver. But that requires that both the sender and the recipient are using the same email program. So, what do you does the sender do if he/she doesn't know if the email programs are compatible at that level? One answer is for both to use the same encryption and decryption application.

What types of files can be encrypted?
SecureFile treats all files the same way. As a result of this, any file can be encrypted regardless of what it started out as. This is possible because, to the computer, a file is nothing more than a collection of binary information. In essence, a file is just a series of numbers that have meaning only in the context of the programs that use the data in the file. The software leverages this by not making an attempt at understanding or interpreting the data as nothing more than raw data other than determining if the file is already encrypted by SecureFile.

What this means is that the user of the software can encrypt any type of file that is on the computer, provided the operating system allows the user to open the file for read purposes. The only caution on this for the user is when a file is selected that has been encrypted by the operating system for a user under a different login and password.

The easiest way to determine if the software can successfully encrypt and decrypt the data is to try opening the original file using a software that was designed to understand the non-encrypted data. If the file is an audio file, try opening it with Media Player, for example. If the user can successfully open the file and the data is presented 'normally', SecureFIle can encrypt it.

A Note on Windows encrypted files
The user needs to be aware of the fact that SecureFile ignores the original attributes of the file selected for encryption. An example of this is that when a file that has read only attributes, or permissions, is encrypted, it will no longer have the read only attribute when decrypted. The actuality is that, when decrypted, the file will inherit the attributes of the folder that it is decrypted to.

Trial Version
Until SecureFile is properly registered, it runs as a trial version that expires thirty (30) days after installation. Besides this time limit, some features are disabled in the trial version. With the exception of this time limit, the differences between the trial and the licensed versions are all in the encryption end of the application. One of these differences is that the licensed version allows four steps of encryption while the trial version only allows two steps.

The second is that the licensed version allows the use of files as keys to the data and the trial version only allows text entered directly into the encrypt form. The final difference is that the licensed version allows you to encrypt a file that is already encrypted by SecureFile. This gives the licensed user the ability of encrypting data at more than four levels.

The decryption part of the software only has the time limit restriction. This was done to allow for the exchange of encrypted files between a licensed user and another who only has the trial version.

The license of this software is Free Trial Software, the price is $50.00, you can free download and get a free trial.