FileBarricader 2004 provides you with the option of using any one of four industry standard encryption algorithms to protect your files. These include RC2, DES, TripleDES (3DES) and Rijndael (AES). For more information do a search on Google for any of these terms. The different algorithms provide varying degrees of strength with RC2 being the weakest and Rijndael (AES) being the strongest. Take note that the stronger the algorithm you use the longer encryption and decryption will take.

Download: FileBarricader 2004 1.1.0.0

FileBarricader 2004 also provides the ability to securely delete files. Files that are deleted with FileBarricader 2004 can be overwritten with random meaningless data for up to three times before the files are deleted, making it impossible to recover the files. The files and folders that are deleted with FileBarricader 2004 are renamed to randomly generated names before deletion to further complicate recovery.

New in version 1.1 of FileBarricader 2004 is the ability to create self decrypting EXE files from your already encrypted files. This enables you to create encrypted files that you can transport on any medium or send to any person and they will be able to use the file, without having to install FileBarricader 2004. The benefit is obvious: You can protect your files and use them where ever you may go!

Additional information:
The Rijndael (AES) encryption algorithm is a very strong algorithm and experts currently estimate the time a high end PC will take to break the algorithm to be in the region of a couple trillion years. For this reason intruders may try a brute force attack. This simply means that an intruder will try all possible passwords until he finds the correct one. For this reason using a short password of 5 or less characters to protect your files is not recommended. Try using passwords of 8 or more characters with letters, numbers and punctuation. This advice is not just valid for FileBarricader 2004 but for any application that requires a password.

To give you an idea of the difference the length of your password can make to the amount of security you actually have please take a look at the following two calculations showing the time it will take for a successful brute force attack on different password lengths (these calculations make use of the 95 characters on your keyboard that is most often used, including uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and punctuation) :
Trying 20,000 passwords per second:
1 char - Time taken: 0.00 seconds
2 chars - Time taken: 0.45 seconds
3 chars - Time taken: 42.87 seconds
4 chars - Time taken: 1.13 hours
5 chars - Time taken: 4.48 days
6 chars - Time taken: 1.17 years
7 chars - Time taken: 110.72 years
Trying 1,000,000,000 passwords per second:
1 char - Time taken: 0.00 seconds
2 chars - Time taken: 0.00 seconds
3 chars - Time taken: 0.00 seconds
4 chars - Time taken: 0.08 seconds
5 chars - Time taken: 7.74 seconds
6 chars - Time taken: 12.25 minutes
7 chars - Time taken: 19.40 hours
8 chars - Time taken: 76.78 days
9 chars - Time taken: 19.99 years
10 chars - Time taken: 1,898.58 years
From this it is clear to see that a couple extra characters in your password can make a HUGE difference in the amount of security you enjoy.