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Silver Key is a program for Windows users which encrypts files and folders so that they can be sent over the Internet in secured parcels as archives or self-executable files.

System Requirement

INV Softwork’s lists the following operating systems as system requirements: Windows 95, 98, M, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Vista as well as Windows 7. For the purpose of this review Silver Key has been installed and tested on Windows Vista.

Features

To encrypt file and folders as parcels just drag & drop files and folders onto the Silver Key shell icon on your desktop, and enter any encryption password of your choosing. Silver Key, by default, uses the AES encryption algorithm, but you can change these and other settings by invoking the Crypto Settings utility from your Silver Key program folder.
If you don’t want to use Silver Key in quick mode open the shell to get the full options at your fingertips. There, If you switch from standard to advanced pages, you can choose from a number of installer features to control your parcel's decryption on the recipient’s computer.

Silver Key, again by default, creates standard parcels, for which the recipient has to download the free Silver Key decrypter, but you can change that during parcel creation in Properties, Parcel Type to Executable.

Performance

Silver Key does at the most provide the features seen in free installers in terms of Silver Key advanced pages, and the de-facto standard and much easier compressions WinRAR utility also offers strong encryption and self-extracting archives as discussed in method 1 of Bright Hub’s article How to Password Protect a DVD. On top of that does WinRAR allow for easy splitting of large objects.

Intuitive layout

You are welcomed by a clean feature lineup where most of the encryption operations can be carried out with minimal effort. Plus, thanks to the step-by-step approach, even rookies can learn to configure the dedicated parameters with just a few clicks.

It is important to mention that the utility offers support for context menu integration, so you easily select the items or directories that you want to process.

Encryption capabilities

The program puts at your disposal three different encryption methods for helping you generate several types of cyphered parcels.

You are allowed to create self-extracting files (EXE file format) for running the packages on any Windows system, generate a standard parcel that contains the encrypted data which can be decoded using only the program, or an attachment parcel which enables you to hide sensitive data into innocent looking files.

Other notable characteristics worth mentioning are represented by the possibility to create EXE parcels by default, obfuscate small parcels, verify the files when the encryption process comes to an end, shred source files at the end of the task, insert digital signatures, and set up passwords and keys.

During our testing we have noticed that Silver Key Free Edition carries out a task quickly and without errors. It is quite friendly with system resources, so the overall performance of the computer is not hampered.

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