Ever download a folder full of files, only to notice all of the documents inside are zipped shut and encrypted—basically the digital version of Fort Knox? These are examples of the ever-wonderful, yet ...

We all use archive file formats like .zip, .rar in order to employ lossless data compression. In a single archive file, we can add several files and folders and considerably reduce the combined size ...

For example, in some situations, it may not make sense to encrypt even a very sensitive file when it’s sitting on your hard disk, but if you transfer it to a flash drive to take it with you somewhere ...