BestCrypt, developed b
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is a commercial disk encryption app available for

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and Android. BestCrypt comes in two editions: BestCrypt Volume Encryption to encrypt entire disk volumes; BestCrypt Container Encryption to encrypt virtual disks stored as computer files. BestCrypt also provides the complimentary

data erasure Data erasure (sometimes referred to as data clearing, data wiping, or data destruction) is a software-based method of data sanitization that aims to completely destroy all electronic data residing on a hard disk drive or other digital media by ...

utility BCWipe.

Cryptographic Algorithms

BestCrypt supports a wide variety of block cipher algorithms including AES, Serpent,

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Twofish In cryptography, Twofish is a symmetric key block cipher with a block size of 128 bits and key sizes up to 256 bits. It was one of the five finalists of the Advanced Encryption Standard contest, but it was not selected for standardization. Two ...

, DES,

Triple DES In cryptography, Triple DES (3DES or TDES), officially the Triple Data Encryption Algorithm (TDEA or Triple DEA), is a symmetric-key block cipher, which applies the DES cipher algorithm three times to each data block. The 56-bit key of the Dat ...

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. All ciphers support

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and LRW modes of operation while AES, Twofish and Serpent also support XTS mode.

Features

* Create and mount a virtual drive encrypted using AES,

, CAST-128 and various other encryption methods. BestCrypt v.8 and higher can alternatively mount a subfolder on a

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disk instead of a drive. Encrypted virtual disk images are compatible across Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. * Encrypt a set of files into a single, self-extracting archive. * Transparently encrypt entire partitions or volumes together with pre-boot authentication for encrypted boot partitions. *

Two-factor authentication Multi-factor authentication (MFA; two-factor authentication, or 2FA) is an electronic authentication method in which a user is granted access to a website or Application software, application only after successfully presenting two or more distin ...

. * Support for size-efficient Dynamic Containers with the Smart Free Space Monitoring technology. * Hardware accelerated encryption. * Anti-keylogging facilities to protect container and volume passwords. *

Data erasure Data erasure (sometimes referred to as data clearing, data wiping, or data destruction) is a software-based method of data sanitization that aims to completely destroy all electronic data residing on a hard disk drive or other digital media by ...

utility BCWipe to erase unprotected copies of data to complement encryption. *

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and

Public Key Public-key cryptography, or asymmetric cryptography, is the field of cryptographic systems that use pairs of related keys. Each key pair consists of a public key and a corresponding private key. Key pairs are generated with cryptographic alg ...

authentication methods in addition to basic password-based authentication. BestCrypt Volume Encryption v.3.png, BestCrypt Volume Encryption v.3 main window BestCrypt for Mac.png, BestCrypt for Mac v.1.3 control panel

References

External links

* {{Cryptographic software Disk encryption Cryptographic software

Cryptographic Algorithms

Features

See also

References

Further reading

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