Welcome To Drop Secure 2007

Drop Secure is the easy-to-use personal encryption program. You can quickly and simply encrypt and compress files by just dragging and dropping the files on the drop secure window.

Encrypt a file

To encrypt files, you must be in encrypt mode. This is the default mode of the application - you can also change to encrypt mode by clicking the encrypt button on the top of the page, or choosing view, then encrypt from the views menu.
Select a file from your desktop or file system and drag over the Drop Secure Program while holding the left mouse button down. Release the mouse button when you are over the Drop Secure icon (the briefcase with the little lock by it). The file will now be encrypted - you will find the encrypted file in the same location as the original.

Decrypt a file

To decrypt files, you must be in decrypt mode. You can go to decrypt mode by selecting the decrypt button on the top of the page, or by choosing view, then decrypt from the drop secure menu.
Select a file from your desktop or file system, and drag over the drop secure program while holding the left mouse button down. Release the mouse button when you are over the decrypt icon (the briefcase with the unlocked lock by it). The file will now be decrypted - you will find the decrypted file in the same location as the original. In the case that you have received this file from someone else via email or other method the document's original will have the drop secure logo by it. You will need to enter the appropriate password for that file that was assigned by the person who encrypted it. This password may be different than the password you use to encrypt your own documents.

Preferences

Preferences > Compression

Here you can choose your compression type, and the strength of the compression you are interested in. Best Compression takes longer to compress, while fastest compression results in larger files.

Preferences > Encryption

Here you can choose the encryption method you wish to use, and set a password to be used while encrypting and decrypting. If you wish the password to be saved, click the save password checkbox. Otherwise, you will need to type it in each time you encrypt/decrypt a file. As you can see below there are a few different types of ciphers to choose from. You can choose multiple ciphers which will encrypt different sections of your document separately for added security. When choosing a password keep in mind that if you are sending the document to another person they will have to know this password in order to decrypt the document.
(for more info on the ciphers we use click here.)

Preferences > Destination

By default, encrypted files appear right where the file you are encrypting resides in the file system. You can change it so all encrypted/decrypted files appear on your desktop, or in any other set location. Also, you can choose to have files automatically attached to email.

Preferences > General

Here you can select whether or not you want the application to run in the system tray. By choosing this option, you can keep Drop Secure running but out of the way until you need it.

File Queue

Additionally, you can choose to enable or disable the file queue button. The file queue works with the encrypt function to allow you to group several files together before encryption begins.

View Archive

There is also a function that allows you to decrypt only a portion of what someone has sent you. For instance if someone sends you an entire encrypted directory or file folder but you only need 3 of the documents, you can pick only these documents to decrypt. To access this function choose views> view archive and select the encrypted directory or folder you wish to extract the documents from. Once you click open you will see the browse archive window here you can select the documents you wish to Extract (or decrypt by them selves). In this window you also have the option to Freshen Archive, which will check that the selected documents are current and make sure you have the latest version. You can also Add a document to the archive from an outside directory or Delete documents that are in the archive that you will not need at all.

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