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The latest version of NCrypt, version 0.6.11, has been ported to the Windows platform and released today. It sports some of the same features as the Unix version, including encryption and decryption options, secure file wiping, and the ability to pass the password on the command line for scripting. Installation is easy using the NSIS (http://nsis.sourceforge.net) installer. Encrypted files are compatible with the Unix version (e.g. encrypt with Windows, decrypt with Unix). 100% free and meant to stay that way. The distribution comes with the full source code as well.

Users have requested new features for ncrypt, which include using a -k option for specifying the key passphrase on the command line, as well as -f for reading the passphrase in from a file. While considered unsafe, these options do allow for batch processing, in particular from cron jobs (e.g. securing logs before emailing to a central host. These features are now in version 0.6.11.

Ncrypt, the file encryptor/decryptor/wiper, has been updated with v0.6.10 . This includes an important bugfix for users encrypting and decrypting binary files. Files encrypted with v0.6.9 and earlier cannot be decrypted with v0.6.10. If you are using Ncrypt, it is highly recommended you update to the latest version.

The latest version of Ncrypt - the file encryptor, decryptor, and wiper - is now available for download. This unix version contains a number of bug fixes and solves a few installation problems.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=69831

Ncrypt 0.6.3 has been released, with support for Linux as well as Win32 platforms. In the Win32 release, a pre-compiled binary is included.