EncryptEase Complete Software - Create a New Session
After the system reboot, the EncryptEase software will restart, bringing us to the main menu. We have three options here: CreateDisc, SelectFiles, and Exit. There are also descriptions of each task if the simple names seem a bit vague as they may.
Clicking on "CreatDisc" brings up a "Create Password" dialog box, which allows us to enter and confirm a password of up to 255 alpha-numeric characters long. There is also a warning displayed that let's us know that passwords written to this CD-R media cannot be changed.
The bottom section of this dialog box lets us choose a time period in which the particular session can be accessible; otherwise, selecting "None" allows for access to the session without any date restrictions. Once we click on "OK", a new window is shown, which allows us to drag and drop files and folders that we want to add to the new session.
We see here that the free space shows 607MB as well as a "Data size" gauge, which helps us monitor the amount of data that we are including in this particular session. Once we have the files that we want to add in the window, we have a couple of different options. Clicking on the "Security Settings" button will bring up the password box again, which will allow us to change the password and date restrictions of the session one last time. Clicking on "Writing options" will take us to the following dialog box, which allows us to select the HDD drive to work with.
After the drive has been selected, we will see the list of files to be added with an additional "Burn To Disc" button, which will do what it says.
Finally, after clicking on the "Burn to Disc" button, a dialog box will appear, allowing us to enter a volume label as well as the write speed of the disc. We are also presented with the options to compare the data after it has been written as well as to close the disc. After making the changes, clicking "OK" will begin the compression/encryption/write process.
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tygrus - Tuesday, February 7, 2006 - link
I can understand that hiding the data in another section of the CD makes it harder to extract, the system should not rely on this. Other tools could be used to copy or extract the raw data. It would have been better to have the software to use the CD to be self-suficient and require no driver to be installed. How long before zombe PC's are decrypting CD's ?Webmaster: Can you please add the title of the article/thread to the top of the page a link to open the thread in a new window (or inline frame). This would make it easier to reference and quote.
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chilled - Tuesday, February 7, 2006 - link
Why isn't it just possible to have the software write the data that is pre-recorded onto the disc at burn time, instead of in advance?Wouldn't this mean that any media could be used, instead of paying $5 per CDR....?
artifex - Tuesday, February 7, 2006 - link
Having a program ridealong on every disc is an unnecessary waste of space, once you've had the opportunity to install the driver once. Basically, this seems like an excuse to take BestCrypt or DriveCrypt type software to a per-disc fee structure. Only the software sounds much more limited. And it certainly locks you into Windows for data retrieval, later.Oh, and what do you do when you want to back up these encrypted disks? And how come you can't browse the data in these files transparently, but have to copy them to the hard drive?
Calin - Tuesday, February 7, 2006 - link
This is nothing different than having a file compressed with password. I wonder how well this system survives to a storage error... in a normal CD, only the "scratched" file is lost, in this way it might be the entire session is lost.Agree with the "per disk" fee, and it is certanly too expensive, as you could buy 10 normal CDs for the price of one of these
Wesley Fink - Tuesday, February 7, 2006 - link
EncryptEase is a good idea, but at a suggested retail of $6.99 for a 600MB CD-R disk and an actual selling price of more than $5 per CD-R it is probably too expensive to attract many home users. With the really cheap prices of CD-R blanks, CD-RW,DVD and DVD-RW blanks, more than $5 a disk for just 600MB of Data Storage, no matter how secure, seems very expensive for home users.If Ricoh could do this for DVD and have it work for RW media it might make some cost sense.
PrinceGaz - Tuesday, February 7, 2006 - link
$5 for one 600MB CD-R that has some burning/encryption software included on the disc, when instead you could buy about 25 normal CD-R discs for the same price. Oh, I can really see these special discs flying off the shelves. Not.Strange that the price of the discs was not mentioned in the article...
Googer - Tuesday, February 7, 2006 - link
How is this differant or any better than the securecord offerd by my Plextor Premieum?http://plextor.com/english/products/Premium.html">http://plextor.com/english/products/Premium.html