Boxcryptor Presentationby Damien Murphy

ICB Monthly Meeting 20 March 2018

Boxcryptor is file-encryption software designed and created specifically for cloud use, with support for all major cloud-storage providers.

How does it work?

Step 1: You need to have some files stored somewhere in the cloude.g. Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, iCloud

Step 2: Download the Boxcryptor software

Online help is relatively easy to follow

Step 3: Create a Boxcryptor Account

Start Boxcryptor.Click on create account.Follow the wizard to finish the account creation.

Create a password that you can remember.

Boxcryptor is zero knowledge encryption software, therefore they cannot restore your password!!!

Step 4: Once installed you should see the Boxcryptor icon in Windows Explorer

N.B.At this point Boxcryptor is not running(this is controlled by you in settings)

Step 5: Run Boxcryptor – you decide if this

is done automatically or if a password is required each time etc.

Now you will see the “virtual” drive X that is created by Boxcryptor - this is called “mounting” a drive

If you expand the X Drive you will see that Boxcryptor has detected your cloud storage, plus removable devices

As a backup you can use any file backup softwaree.g. FreeFileSyncto regularly back up the unencrypted versions of all your files from X Drive to a local source