For some time now, the security of our connections and the information that we store both in the cloud and on our hard drive we always want to be safe. To prevent us from being vulnerable to possible hacker attacks or theft of passwords from cloud services (as happened with Dropbox in 2012) the best we can do is encrypt the most important filesFiles that if they fall into the wrong hands can do us a lot of harm. In this article I am going to show you two free applications that allow us to encrypt files, to be able to share them with other people safely or to have them protected against any unwanted access to our computer or data in the cloud.
How to encrypt files in Windows 10
VeraCrypt
VerCrypt came on the market to replace TrueCrypt, after the problems it faced when it announced that its file protection system was not as secure as it claimed. If you made use of TryeCrypt you can see how it works and the interface is practically the same. VeraCrypt support the following encryption algorithms: AES, Serpent, Twofish, Camella, GOST89, Kuznyechik, AES (Twofish), AES (Twofish (Serpent)), Serpetn (AES), Serpent (Twofish (AES)) and Twofish (Serpent).
7-Zip
Although this application is best known for allowing us to reduce space occupied by files or folders, it also offers us the possibility of being able to encrypt the files we compress. The advantage of this application is that it is free, as I have reported above, since although other official applications also allow this encryption, we have to go through the checkout if we want to use the application. 7-Zip offers us AES-256 encryption and we can download it directly from the following link.