AxCrypt offers a free plan as well as paid plans for individuals and organizations (Image credit: AxCrypt). Running $3.75/month, Premium access gets you everything at the free tier, with new ...

AxCrypt Premium makes encryption simple enough for anyone, and it even offers public key cryptography for secure sharing of encrypted files.

Speaking of algorithms, AxCrypt uses 128-bit AES encryption, and doesn’t include an option for the presumably more secure AES-256. But according to a report by security expert Bruce Schneier ...

AxCrypt integrates into the right-click menu in Windows, so encrypting a file is as simple as right clicking and choosing a single file to encrypt. Some other great features include: ...

Like AxCrypt, Xecrets uses the file extension AXX for its encrypted files. With AxCrypt, Secure IT , Advanced Encryption Package, and CryptoForge, you can choose encryption options for a file from ...

AxCrypt offers secure deletion but sticks to one overwrite. Advanced Encryption Package offers a selection of secure deletion algorithms, some of them based on government recommendations.

AxCrypt’s mobile edition for Android and Apple devices has taken some big steps since my last review. It’s now feature-wise on par with the macOS edition. You can encrypt, ...

You can also use AxCrypt to shred a file, overwriting it with random data so it cannot be retrieved. But it’s a simple shredder, without using the more complex secure delete algorithms found in ...

AxCrypt can rename any encrypted file to use a random string of characters for its name. And it remembers what it did, so you can recover the original filename as needed.