File Cloud Crypt - File and Cloud Encryption

File Cloud Crypt is an app that allows you to encrypt your locally available files. With file encryption and securely defined passwords, you ensure that nobody except you will be able to access your personal files. Nowadays, mobile devices act as portable computers with powerful processors and growing memory storages. With this a tendency is observable in which we store more and more private data in form of files in order to be able to access them at any time in any place, even if there is no internet connection at the moment. Lost your driving license during a stay outside your country? Show the police officer a digital copy located on your device. Today’s mobile devices include multi-functions that produce an amount of data, such as pictures through the camera app. But what happens if your device gets lost or even stolen? Do you feel comfortable to know that someone will be able to access all your private data like important documents or pictures? In most cases not! But this is not the only problem: you lost all your private data!

File Cloud Crypt focuses on solutions that target both mentioned risks: 1) It prevents anyone other to access your personal files and 2) it allows you through installed plugins to get your files back by storing encrypted copies on cloud servers like Dropbox or Google Drive. What is a cloud server? A cloud server is a remote computer/server with usually large storage resources. Operators of such cloud servers allow you to store your private data/files on their storages, usually for free. But do you want to trust any operator that nobody will access your data? Finally we target our private data. If yes, what about employees, hackers or even secret services? File Cloud Crypt encrypts your file by personal defined passwords using state of the art encryption methods. Only owner of selected passwords will be able to decrypt prior encrypted files on your mobile device or even on remote cloud servers. Single or multiple file, folders and subfiles and subfolders can be encrypted by individual defined passwords. Many cloud server allow sharing folders with a group. Imagine there is a folder on your cloud server shared with your colleagues. Some of your colleagues are working on a project with you. Do you want to prevent others to access project-related files? Just encrypt them using a password only you and some of your colleagues know. Moving to a new device? Connect File Cloud Crypt on your new device with your cloud service and download all your remotely stored encrypted files.

File Cloud Crypt enables various password enter methods. You can define text-based encryption passwords, pin numbers or paths of numbers or symbols, shuffled or not, in order to easy the entering of a secret. If not using a standard text-based password, you have to enter a master key. Together with the master key, various elements (pin, numbers, symbols, fingerprint) define your encryption password in order to prevent shoulder attacks.

You need just a short view on an encrypted file? Use the temporary decryption, in which a decrypted copy get created for view and deleted after view. The original file remains encrypted.

These and more functions are offered by File Cloud Crypt.

File Cloud Crypt as a cost-free app itself offers limited features. You can enable complex functions through purchasing the full feature set plugin excluding the cloud bindings. Cloud binding is done through the installation of offered cloud-based plugins, for example the Dropbox- or the Google Drive plugins. We are working hard to extend the list of supported cloud services.

Keywords: File encryption, Encryption, Decryption, Cloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, cryptography, Android, theft protection, Backup