Protect Me! 1.1.0.0

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Creates secure executable (.exe) container files to which you can add any files and directories you want to! This is a major update to Protect Me!. The application has been completely revised and offers many new features and enhancements!


Protect Me! creates secure executable (.exe) container files to which you can add any files and directories you want to! Your files will be stored securely inside the container file. To ensure a maximum of security, Protect Me! uses SHA1 for password validation and AES for encryption. The container file can either run or extract your files once you typed in the right password.

Features:

Easily password-protect any file you want!
You get one .exe file which contains the encrypted file(s)
The result will be just a few KB bigger than the encrypted files themselves!
Your data is really secure!
SHA1 for password validation
AES (Rijndael) for your data
The container file is compiled at runtime!

Changelog:

New Feature: Checks for the existence of .NET Framework 3.5 to avoid errors
New Feature: Checks for updates at the beginning
New Feature: Progressbar now shows progress of Drag&Drop operations
New Feature: Added setting "Check for updates at start", which can be saved now!
New Feature: Temporary files will even be removed after cancelling container creation
New Feature: Option to manually set a cache directory (to avoid out-of-space issues)
New Feature: Shows free RAM, free cache and container limit now
Improvement: Drag&Drop is now multithreaded (GUI will not hang anymore)
Improvement: Performance when adding multiple files via Drag&Drop has been extremely increased (1200 files in less than 1 second now)
Improvement: The container's content is limited to 800MB (838860800 Bytes) to avoid .NET assembly problems (compiler limits)
Improvement: The added files' size may not extend the amount of available RAM (to avoid out-of-RAM errors)
Improvement: Only compiler errors, not warnings are shown
Improvement: Checks if there's enough space available in the destination directory
Improvement: Checks if there's enough space available in the TEMP directory
Improvement: Added default filename for containers (SecureContainer.exe)
Improvement: Always checks if application has write access to avoid errors
Improvement: Container offers to choose another directory for caching if the default cache directory it out of space and you execute a file
GUI: Updated status label "Homepage"
Bugfix: Fixed several smaller issues
Bugfix: Some file paths could cause an error when adding files
Bugfix: Can be closed while creating a container now
Bugfix: The secure container now really supports Drag&Drop for file extraction
Bugfix: Adding directories is now completely supported, one directory was always skipped
Bugfix: Main app can overwrite files now (if destination file already exists)
Project: Changed name from "Protect Me! 2010" to "Protect Me!"
Project: Version change to 1.1.0.0 to symbolize that there are many changes
Project: Has its own installer now which also supports uninstall
Security: The plaintext password is now internally hashed with salt (150 times) to enhance security
Security: Internal file index is also encrypted to maximize security
Requirements: .NET Framework 3.5 (or higher versions)
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