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Policy-Driven File Encryption Explorer Based on OpenPGP for Secure Storage Solutions

A tool to help secure data at rest as well as data in flight, through a user-friendly explorer GUI, with enhanced policy support for file classification based on attributes and content semantics.

Date Posted: April 8, 2009

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Platform requirements

Operating System
Windows operating system compatible with Java Standard Edition

Software
Java Run-time Environment (JRE) 1.5 or above (IBM JRE 1.5.0.9 or later preferred)

Installation instructions

  1. Unzip the installable "SecureExplorer.zip" in your desired directory.
  2. Start the utility by double-clicking "StartUtility.bat" from bin directory.
  3. At startup, the utility will check whether all the prerequisites are met, if not then it will prompt user to take necessary corrective actions.
  4. For file encryption operations, the utility requires the users' OpenPGP public/private key pair. Therefore, before using this tool, the you must create an OpenPGP public/private key pair using any OpenPGP key generation tool such as GnuPG.
    The utility will ask for locations of your public/private keys. After verifying the key information provided, the GUI will be displayed and ready for use.

Note: It's recommended you first read the Readme file and FAQ included in the download.


Download description

Filename File size Description
SecureExplorer.zip    3976KBA tool to help secure data. with enhanced policy support for file classification.

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