Interscope BlackBox 4.0 Description:

Interscope BlackBox offers advanced solutions for protecting your most critical asset: data. With support for strong cryptography, integration in major e-mail clients, modular architecture, self-extracting archive creation capability and smooth shell integration it ensures your security tools are always just the right click away.

You should get BlackBox if you are:

Worried about someone reading your files
Transferring sensitive files over the Internet
Sending and receiving confidential e-mail

Ease of Use ----->
Interscope BlackBox was designed to provide you with sophisticated, yet easy-to-use security tools that naturally extend your desktop and make it a safer place. The integration with Windows Explorer and the desktop, Outlook Express or Outlook 2000 means it is easy to learn and use because it works like your operating system and your familiar tools. As a result you will be securing files, a critical but often overlooked task, in just minutes after installing BlackBox.

Encrypt or Wipe? ----->
To provide security, BlackBox uses encryption and wiping. It features two types of data encryption: file and text encryption.

File encryption is tightly integrated into the Windows shell and is backed by efficient, high-quality algorithms (AES, DES, Blowfish, IDEA, CAST, RC4). This makes encrypting/decrypting files as easy as right-clicking them and entering a password. Even better, BlackBox can maintain a security set for you - essentially a list of sensitive files and folders that you must protect. Your security set logically binds together all your protected data, possibly spread across several folders and drives.

Text encryption means you can encrypt any text message or document (e.g. the text on the clipboard, the text in any window on your screen or any Microsoft Word document). This is different from file encryption because the encrypted text is printable. You can process, store or send the encrypted text using the same tools and in the same way as you would the plain text. Such a feature is ideal for working with secure text in any of your current or future applications, without requiring a specific BlackBox plug-in to be built for them.

For secure distribution you can compress and encrypt your files into self-extracting archives. Your confidential data will decrypt and unpack itself, once the right password is provided.

And since deleting files from your computer essentially leaves the sensitive content on the hard drive, you need a tool that ensures once you decide to delete something, it will actually happen. BlackBox can dispose securely and irreversibly of your data. Dropping your files over the Shredder ensures your data cannot be recovered, even if a low-level disk utility is used. It even allows you to meet the purging specifications of the US Department of Defense.

Requirements ----->

Windows 95/95/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003
32MB RAM
5MB free disk space
VGA monitor
Mouse or compatible pointing device


Interscope BlackBox was tested and certified by VeriTest to be compatible with Windows 2000/XP and Microsoft Office XP/2003.