what do you use to encrypt your files,outside containers

i use locknote to encrypt text to exe file
If anyone knows about an application that would encrypt large text only, i mean "scramble" it, so it would be txt in the beginning and txt when it is encrypted. Preferably with 256AES, that would be great.

p.s. i could find some apps that do that, but none can encrypt more than 500kb of *.txt file

 

PGP/GPG in ASCII armor mode does that. I can encrypt any file and have it show up as scrambled text.

 

Winrar here.

 

I use GnuPG

 

I can't remember if I put in my suggestions in this thread or not. I'm feeling too lazy to read the whole thread again.

Axcrypt for single-file encryption and TrueCrypt for volume/partition/system encryption.

 

For encryption on my machine I use EFS. For local backup I have a NTFS formatted USB stick which keeps the files EFS encrypted. For backup in the cloud I use ZIP files with AES 256 encryption. I zip them with Microsofts DotNetZip Library which I access through a PowerShell script I made (for "batch" operation).

 

Drawback of GnuPG is that it doesn't retain the file dates/times.

 

Not a major drawback though. if I need to maintain the file date/time, I zip it first then run gpg on the resulting file.

Normally files I want to protect are kept in a container or encrypted partition. The only reason I would encrypt a single file would be to send it to someone.

 

Steganography (http://sourceforge.net/projects/hide-in-picture/)

 

For “batch” script ZIP operations, note that WinZip provides a free Command Line Support Add-On that is quite powerful. The product has a built-in “job” capability, too.

 

I know, but I like the DotNetZip Library better because it doesn't have to be installed. It's just a 400 KB .dll you place somewhere. Also it's free and real quality software (by Microsofts .NET team). For non-batch jobs I use the built in compressed folder feature.