Freeware to Encrypt Quicken File?

Truecrypt is multi-platform and widely used. God help us if it is compromised.

From: "Andrew"

Any archival program using high bit encryption. WinZIP, 7-Zip, etc.

Thanks. 7-zip looks good; and it's free. I could use WinZip but that looked like a free trial only.

Thanks David - I'll keep this link around. This looked like a bit overkill for one file, but certainly I'd consider this if I need to do a whole drive or partition. I appreciate your time in replying.

David Arnstein wrote in news:lb1klp$q1g$1 @reader1.panix.com:

Agreed. Simplest thing on a usb is to create a 4gb truecrypt volume (looks like a file to the system) so FAT32 file system works. Put truecrypt on the usb too (uncencrypted of course. then just run truecrypt from the usb and mount your encrypted volume file and away you go. Only shortfall is that Android devices can't open truecrypt volume, unless you first root your Android and add some support.

scott s. .

From: "Andrew"

Yes, my mistake. I should have noted that it is free IFF you already have a paid-forarchival software as it wouldn't cost anything addiotional to implement.

No need to apologize; you didn't say anything that was incorrect! I should have put 'freeware' into my original note.

Actually, since Windoze 7 already comes with a 'send to compressed file' option as part of the native OS, I was surprised to find out there was no encryption option already included with this built-in function.

True crypt is the way to go. You can a create portable version on a flash drive that installs truecrypt and then opens an encrypted volume. Instructions for this are on the TrueCrypt site.

BTW, I use truecrypt to protect my important data files including my quicken data. You do not need to encrypt a whole volume, you can create a small file (say 100MB) if that is all that is needed.

Marty