WINDOWS 10 ENCRYPTION APP
Available from the Microsoft Store
Hyper Crypt is a free Windows 10 encryption app to protect your data by encrypting files, folders, or even generating passwords and hash data. This app does it all. The speed is of the app is fast as well and it takes only a few seconds to encrypt or decrypt a file or folder.
The Windows 10 encryption app can be downloaded from the Windows 10 store or from the link given at the end of this article. When you start this app you will come across an interface as shown in the screenshot below.

Here you can see that you get options to encrypt and decrypt files or folders. For encrypting a file or folder you will first need to enter a encryption key.

Entering a encryption key windows looks like the above screenshot. Here on the left side enter a key which will be used to encrypt your file. Once you create a key, then you can go back to the file encryption page. Here click file or folder encryption tile. This will bring up the browse window, where you have to navigate to the file location and select it for encryption. Once the file is selected, it will be converted with in a matter of seconds. Similarly, you can decrypt a file or folder. Just select a file or folder from a location on your computer and the decryption will be done in few seconds.

The other tools screen contains a text encryption tool, password generator, and hash generator. The password or key generator can be seen in the screenshot below.

You can define the length of the key or password you want and then just click on the generate button. The generated password can be copied and pasted in to any application.
Features of this Windows 10 encryption app:
- Encrypt files and folders.
- Generate strong passwords.
- Generate hash data.
- Fast encryption speed.
- No installation required.
- Encrypts files with AES-256 encryption.
- Contains a text encryption tool.
- Encrypt text using AES-256, RSA, or One-Time pad.
- Contains a hashing tool.
- Hash data integrity validations done using SHA and HMAC-SHA.
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