Private Disk is a disk encryption application for the Microsoft Windows operating system, developed by Dekart SRL. It works by creating a virtual drive, the contents of which is encrypted on-the-fly; other software can use the drive as if it were a usual one.
Developer(s) | Dekart |
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Stable release | 2.14
/ June 20, 2014 |
Operating system | Windows 9x, Windows NT 4.0 through Windows 8 |
Available in | 17 languages |
Type | Disk encryption software |
License | Shareware |
Website | dekart |
One of Private Disk's key selling points is in its ease of use, which is achieved by hiding complexity from the end user[1] (e.g. data wiping is applied transparently when an encrypted image is deleted.) This simplicity does however reduce its flexibility in some respects (e.g. it only allows the use of AES-256 encryption.)
Although Private Disk uses a NIST certified implementation of the AES[2] and SHA-256/384/512[3] algorithms, this certification is restricted to a single component of Private Disk; the encryption/hash library used[4][5] and not to Private Disk as a complete system.
Existing versions
There are multiple versions of Private Disk, which provide a different feature set:
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