Secure Dropbox Files With BoxCryptor

One of the downsides of cloud storage is that (as yet) they do not offer encryption. The one exception is Sync, which I also use and which is great. But Dropbox doesn’t offer any file encryption.

Until they do, a good alternative is BoxCryptor. With a limited free version and two paid versions, BoxCryptor makes a virtual drive on your computer which becomes your new Dropbox folder. When you drag a file into the folder, you can specify whether or not it should be encrypted before it is sent to the Dropbox server.

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