Even though everyone may think about security when they use the computer, they may not know the best way to achieve it. Most people have not studied computer science or computer security for a living. They do not understand the many things that it takes to secure the whole of your computer. When they see their system, all they know is that they are able to hit the letters on a keyboard and all of the sudden the information pops up on the screen. Computer operating system makers make it so that the average person is not exposed to the many layers that really go into making your modern day computer. So the average person will rely on what experts tell them is a good way to secure their system. They will hear about malware, antiviruses, pop up blockers, and other things of that nature. But the one thing that they will rarely hear about is encryption. This is not a good thing because one of the best ways to secure your system is to use encryption on it. In this article, we will describe encryption and what are the best programs to use to be able to encrypt your system.

When people talk about encryption, they are usually using a general term that underscores many different techniques to accomplish similar goals. There is no single way to encrypt a file. There have been many arguments on which encryption type is the best. We are not here to argue that. You can look more into it at a later date and decide for yourself which one is the best to use. What we are here for is to give you a brief overview of encryption and how to use it on your system. Encryption is simply the organized obfuscation of data on your computer. A simple way to think about encryption is this way, if you have a code “abcde” and you use “12345” to represent it, you have used a very, very basic form of encryption. The number 1 is represents a, 2 is representing b, 3 is representing c, and so on. Computers are able to use encryption to protect their data in a similar manner but it is a whole lot more complex than what we have shown here.

If you are interested in encrypting files on your computer and do not want anyone to be able to access it without your permission, you can use a program that is called Truecrypt. It will allow you to easily set up a folder that will encrypt all of the data that you put in there. It can also encrypt entire drives of your computer as well. If you have a drive that you do not want anyone to be able to get into, then using Truecrypt will help that.

If you think that you would like to use encryption to protect your files in Windows, then the Truecrypt program is a good way to go.

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