Secure your Google Drive with BoxCryptor for Windows

Here it is: Google’s long awaited online storage – Google Drive – has finally launched. For those of you who want to use Google Drive but care about adequate data security, BoxCryptor is the ideal solution. In this tutorial I will show you how you can easily encrypt your Google Drive synced files with BoxCryptor.

1. Create a Google account or login to an existing one

First of all you should create a new Google account or login to an existing one. Then you can download the Google Drive Software. After downloading, start the setup and follow the instructions.

2. Download and install BoxCryptor

If you haven’t yet downloaded BoxCryptor you can get the current version from here: www.boxcryptor.com. After downloading start the setup and follow the instructions.

3. Setting up BoxCryptor

Run BoxCryptor. If you’re running BoxCryptor for the first time, a wizard will help you to set up a new encrypted folder. Otherwise, right click the little padlock icon in the system tray, go to “Show BoxCryptor” and click on “Create new” to create a new encrypted folder. Choose the location of your Google Drive folder and a name for your encrypted folder (by default: “BoxCryptor”). On the next page select the drive letter of the BoxCryptor drive.Then you define a password for the encrypted files. Please make sure not to forget this password, as it cannot be resotred or resetted anymore! If you need advanced setting (e.g. deactivated filename encryption) you can now change this in the advanced mode.

4. Encrypt data

Once finished, it is very easy to encrypt your files and folders you want to sync with Google Drive. Just drag then into your BoxCryptor drive and they will automatically be encrypted and synced to the selected folder in your Google Drive account.

5. Setting up other computer

To decrypt your data on another computer install Google Drive. When Google Drive finished syncing, repeat step 1 and 2 on the other computer. Instead of creating a new encrypted folder, you have to open an existing encrypted folder. Select the same encrypted folder within your Google Drive which you have previously encrypted (e.g. Google DriveBoxCryptor). After selecting the drive letter and finishing the Wizard, type in password you’ve chosen before and your files will appear decrypted in the BoxCryptor drive.

 

Have fun with Google Drive and BoxCryptor for Windows while we are working on integrating Google Drive in our iOS and Android apps!

 

BoxCryptor for Android v1.2 is here

Boris and the rest of our team worked hard the past days in order to bring you the latest update for BoxCryptor for Android and we have just released version 1.2 in Google Play Store! This is our first step in supporting additional storage providers additionally to Dropbox. For now, we have “only” added support to access encrypted folders on the sd card of your device, but we will soon also add support for additional cloud storage providers like Box.net!

Additionally, we have listened to your feedback about the newly required permission to read the phone state and identity. This permission is not required in the new version anymore in order to protect your privacy.

We’d be very happy if you’d rate BoxCryptor for Android in Google Play Store if you haven’t done it already! Thanks for your support!

BoxCryptor for Android v1.2 has the following improvements:

• Added: SD card support
  Additionally to Dropbox, encrypted folders can also be located on the sd card. You can now use BoxCryptor with apps like DropSync or FolderSync or simply copy the encrypted folder manually to your Android device.

• Added: Caching support
  Encrypted files are now cached locally on the sd card. This means that already downloaded encrypted files are not re-downloaded if opened again. This applies only to encrypted files – plaintext files are always deleted directly after being used.

• Added: App2SD support
  The app can now be moved to sd card.

• Modified: Read phone state and identity permission is not required anymore
  Many users expressed concerns about their privacy because the device IMEI has been transmitted to our servers during the activation of a serial number. In order to address these concerns, we do not collect the IMEI anymore, but rather generate a “pseudo-unique” hardware id.

• Modified: Upgraded to the latest Dropbox SDK 

Get BoxCryptor for Android v1.2 in the Google Play Store or scan this QR-code:

New BoxCryptor for Windows version available

Hi everybody! Today we have released a new version of BoxCryptor for Windows. The new version 1.3.0.1 is only a minor release with the following bug fixes:

• Fixed: Malwarebytes Anti-Malware did cause BoxCryptor to hang
• Fixed: Programs failed to save files with transactions (e.g. KeePass)
• Fixed: UNC paths can now also contain exclamation marks

You can download BoxCryptor for Windows v1.3.0.1 here:

http://www.boxcryptor.com/download/BoxCryptor_v1.3.0.1_Setup.exe

New Team Member at BoxCryptor!

Sébastien is the newest member of our team and just started today in our new office (we moved in here two days ago :-).

 

He studies German-French Management at the University of Augsburg and will be responsible for marketing and distribution. Due to the fact that he is half french, half iranian, born in Germany and has lived in Canada for a while, he will bring globalisation right into our team. Outside the office he loves to play floorball, an upcoming new sport in Europe.

Sébastien is already working on new marketing specials and events for you – so watch out for new Facebook and Twitter promotion!