Cryptic Disk allows for the creation of virtual encrypted disks, encryption of hard disks, memory cards, and USB drives using multiple algorithms.

It employs AES/Rijndael, Serpent, Twofish, Blowfish, CAST6), and the process is performed in real-time but does not affect your machine's performance. A nice security feature found in Cryptic Disk is the use of cascading encryption, which utilizes multiple algorithms within a sequence - this permits vastly improved cryptographic strength by increasing encryption key size from 256 to 2944 bits. Additionally, Cryptic Disk contains default brute force password attack and keylogger protection, ensuring the safety of your data.

Cryptic Disk is displayed via an extremely user-friendly interface that includes a wizard to help you along the encryption process.

Cryptic Disk Features and Benefits:

Creation of virtual encrypted disks from container files and mounting them as separate disks

Encryption of whole disk partitions (internal and removable) as well as other drives (memory cards, pen drives, USB drives, and more) without losing information

Transparent (on-the-fly) data encryption which takes place in real-time and does not affect computer performance

Deniable Encryption so that encrypted volumes do not contain any signatures which could be used to prove that they are encrypted disks or containers

Plausible Deniability, which allows creating hidden encrypted disks multiply nested inside of each other (steganography)

Support for using key files together with a password or instead of a password, offering users flexibility in how they deploy the disk encryption software

Powerful protection from brute force password attacks (both dictionary attacks and true brute force attacks) following PKCS #5 v2

Reliable protection from keyloggers (built-in virtual keyboard for entering passwords)

Ability to use the disk encryption software on a computer without installing it beforehand (portable mode)

Configurable automatic actions when an encrypted disk is mounted or dismounted: play a WAV file, or launch a program or script in the following languages: CMD Shell, Windows Scripts, and PowerShell

Support for different cryptographic algorithms to encrypt data: AES/Rijndael, Serpent, Twofish, Blowfish, CAST6

Use of XTS data encryption mode developed especially for disk encryption (IEEE 1619 standard)

Support for cascade encryption (use of multiple cryptographic algorithms to encrypt data in sequence) to improve the cryptographic strength provided by the disk encryption software, increasing encryption key size from 256 to 2944 bits in XTS mode

Support for using different algorithms for header key derivation: HMAC-SHA-512, HMAC-RIPEMD-256, HMAC-Whirlpool

Ability to mount an encrypted container/disk using any free drive letter or an empty folder on an NTFS disk

Support for setting hotkeys to mount and dismount encrypted volumes quickly

Support for automatic restoration of access settings to shared resources on an encrypted disk after mounting it

Optimization for multiple CPUs

Ability to access the program's features from the command line, which allows automating the process of working with the program

Multilingual interface