Software Description
There are many tools on the market today that allow you to securely encrypt your files. They all have the same downside, though. They require an extra operation to be performed when you encrypt or decrypt your file. Here are the two common scenarios: You edit a document and save it to a file. Then you encrypt this file with your encryption program. And vise versa. You decrypt a file and then view/edit it in your text processor. It takes more time and requires you to perform more actions.
Some encryption programs allow you to create encrypted disk volumes. They encrypt and decrypt your files on-the-fly. Yet, there are definitely more downsides. If an encrypted volume is damaged, you lose all the files it contains. To use an encrypted disk volume on another computer, you need to install your disk encryption software on that computer.
Altstone offers an interesting solution. Their Private Notetaker is a highly portable application that combines a text processor and an encryption program. The program can operate in two modes: rich text and plain text, and thus, substitutes for both Wordpad and Notepad as their secure analogs. .....
