Posts Tagged ‘Encryption’

I’ve lost my encryption password – can you help me?

Saturday, May 29th, 2010

EncryptionUnfortunately, no we can’t.

One of the main security aspects of 77backup is that only YOU knows the encryption password.  If you lose your password, then nobody can decrypt your file, and we can’t help you !

Therefore, when choosing your encryption password, choose something that you can easily remember…

Encryption

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

In cryptography, encryption is the process of transforming information (referred to as plaintext) using an algorithm (called cipher) to make it unreadable to anyone except those possessing special knowledge, usually referred to as a key. Witch is often a password or a phrase.

The result of the process is encrypted information (in cryptography, referred to as ciphertext). In many contexts, the word encryption also implicitly refers to the reverse process, decryption, to make the encrypted information readable again.

As far as 77backup and most backup software, data is encryted before leaving the source computer, is stored cryted (data remains private) and is only decrypted when data is restored by the user.