Hey everyone, I am sorry it has been a while since my last post before today.  I have been going through a lot of stuff in life that I have needed to make a priority.  I am recently separated and have my own apartment.  On top of trying to get things squared away there I have also been trying to work with the Attorney and the Office of Child Support to nail down what my monthly support will be.  I am also working on getting a visitation schedule down on paper so that I can see the kids on a regular basis.

Things are slowly getting back on track and I will be posting on here more frequently than I have been.

While I do not use Windows on a regular basis I do have XP installed under Parallels (trial mode) so that I can test websites in IE. I decided that I would install SecureZIP - The next generation of ZIP. I wanted to test it out and see what all of the fuss was about. I have been hearing great things about this application. SecureZip is a compression program that will actually encrypt your files based on either a pass phrase or a certificate. Anyone who is worried about data security should look into this application.

SecureZip also integrates with Outlook and while I cannot say that I tested this feature it does look very nice. They state that you can encrypt attachments and then just resend the same files to another email address by forwarding the email and you will not have to re-encrypt or anything. I believe that this application is overkill for the average computer user however for companies who deal with sensitive data (and run Windows) this just might be the solution they are looking for.

From my tests the compression was not the greatest. I just tested by compressing my Document and Users folder on the C drive which is 89MB and it compressed down to 62MB. I also did my searching for a while to see if SecureZip had been cracked as of yet. This search turned up empty. It looks like it really is as secure as they are stating. I am sure in the future we will see a crack for them however I am sure the developers would be quick to change the algorithm that they use so that any cracks released would be useless.

They just need to make a mac version of this program now so they don’t leave out the best users of all