Folder Lock: How secure?? Anything better?

I've recently installed an encryption program called Folder Lock that uses
256-bit Blowfish and hides files in a "Locker" folder.

Trouble is the passwords are restricted to about 12-15 characters, they are
not case-sensitive, and only textual (alphabetic and numeric) charters can
be used.

Also, I've read that data can be decrypted simply by moving the Locker
folder to a new directory and re-installing the program, creating a new
password and then it will helpfully unencrypted the data previously
encrypted with a different password.

Does anyone have any experience using Folder Lock? Just how secure is it?
Would the severe limit on passwords in relation to their length and non-case
sensitive, textual characters only mean that someone could easily hack the
data files and quickly determine the password using another program?

I'm wanting to secure my laptop in the event of theft, as well as to secure
files stored on a flash drive. It doesn't have to withstand the most
sophisticated attacks, but it has to be robust enough so that a computer
hacker won't gain access.

Any thoughts on Folder Lock or suggestions for other relatively simple and
reliable encryption programs would be appreciated.

Folder Lock has the advantage of a very simple interface and avoids all of
the PGP sort of complexity etc that you often encounter with encryption
programs. The thing is, does it work?

Any helpful comments would be much appreciated.

Sam

Re: Folder Lock: How secure?? Anything better?

On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:08:08 -0500, Sam wrote:

> I've recently installed an encryption program called Folder Lock that uses
> 256-bit Blowfish and hides files in a "Locker" folder.

I've never used Folder Lock. I've previously used, and liked
http://www.truecrypt.org/

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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Re: Folder Lock: How secure?? Anything better?

"Sam" wrote in message
news:sL9Gf.133$yK1.59@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> I've recently installed an encryption program called Folder Lock that uses
> 256-bit Blowfish and hides files in a "Locker" folder.
>
> Trouble is the passwords are restricted to about 12-15 characters, they
are
> not case-sensitive, and only textual (alphabetic and numeric) charters can
> be used.
>
> Also, I've read that data can be decrypted simply by moving the Locker
> folder to a new directory and re-installing the program, creating a new
> password and then it will helpfully unencrypted the data previously
> encrypted with a different password.
>
> Does anyone have any experience using Folder Lock? Just how secure is it?
> Would the severe limit on passwords in relation to their length and
non-case
> sensitive, textual characters only mean that someone could easily hack the
> data files and quickly determine the password using another program?
>
> I'm wanting to secure my laptop in the event of theft, as well as to
secure
> files stored on a flash drive. It doesn't have to withstand the most
> sophisticated attacks, but it has to be robust enough so that a computer
> hacker won't gain access.
>
> Any thoughts on Folder Lock or suggestions for other relatively simple and
> reliable encryption programs would be appreciated.
>
> Folder Lock has the advantage of a very simple interface and avoids all of
> the PGP sort of complexity etc that you often encounter with encryption
> programs. The thing is, does it work?
>
> Any helpful comments would be much appreciated.
>
> Sam
>
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I've never used filder lock but I've always heard good things about
blowfish. Apparently, there are about 150 other programs that use blowfish
besides folder lock. You might feel better w/ one of them.
http://www.schneier.com/blowfish-products.html
donnie.

Re: Folder Lock: How secure?? Anything better?

"Sam" wrote in
news:sL9Gf.133$yK1.59@news-server.bigpond.net.au:

> I've recently installed an encryption program called Folder Lock
> that uses 256-bit Blowfish and hides files in a "Locker" folder.
>
> Trouble is the passwords are restricted to about 12-15 characters,
> they are not case-sensitive, and only textual (alphabetic and
> numeric) charters can be used.
>
>

I'll second David's recommendation for TrueCrypt. It mounts a
container file as a disk drive and anything written/read to this
drive is encrypted.
o It's freeware
o It has 11 encryption algorithms to choose including Blowfish & AES
o Maximum password length is 64 characters, case sensitive.
o It's open-source
o You can open container files over a network.
o Easy to use.
Check it out



HTH,
John

Re: Folder Lock: How secure?? Anything better?

In comp.security.misc Sam wrote:
> I've recently installed an encryption program called Folder Lock that uses
> 256-bit Blowfish and hides files in a "Locker" folder.
> Trouble is the passwords are restricted to about 12-15 characters, they are
> not case-sensitive, and only textual (alphabetic and numeric) charters can
> be used.
> ...
> Any thoughts on Folder Lock or suggestions for other relatively simple and
> reliable encryption programs would be appreciated.

http://www.truecrypt.org/

Yours,
VB.
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