04 May, 2012

Encrypt and Protect your Data on PC and Cloud

In the recent past a number of cloud storage providers came to existence as  , ,  etc. Since the world is moving towards cloud storage the future of storage system and files are shared and kept on the cloud servers where you don't have any control on the on the privacy of the file stored. However there are various free compression and  encryption tools are available for data security of the files. But still the use of all the tools is not handy enough as you need to decrypt the data on your local machine before

CloudFogger

using it and all this is tiresome and lengthy process.

What is Cloudfogger and what it does:-

Cloudfogger is a program which when installed will create a Cloudfogger Drive (usually X:) on your machine which looks similar to OS drive (C:/) by properties, and makes the procedure of file encryption and decryption very handy and fast. You can encrypt and decrypt the file from the context menu and the file icon and association will change. All the files you encrypt on c: will be available in unencrypted form in (X:/).

CloudFogger Options

You can also make sure the file is shared only to those you have authorized as even they will get a mail notification for the file shared with a temporary password to access the file. You can see in the image below the options to Fogg (Encrypt) the file and once you done it the file icon will change to Cloudfogger.

You can always lock your account so that decryption of file is not possible until you want it as you need to login to the application again to have access to it.

Cloudfogger Context menu options

encrypted fileIcon for the File encrypted with cloud fogger

Context Menu cloud fogger options (Left) 

HOW Cloudfogger secures files on the cloud:-

If you share only the fogged files over the cloud you have the control on who is accessing the file. Thus your privacy and security is still maintained.

Pros:-
Fast encryption and Decryption of the file 
Easy access to Fogg and Unfogg features
Good to use as application is available for multiple platforms (Android, Windows, etc)
Cons:-
You need to have a account with Cloudfogger to use the program and services
Currently the app and features are free but no promise to keep the same always free

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