BENGALURU: With the internet users growing in number day by day, all the services are now available online to provide easy access to people. As much as these facilities grow, the need to protect our data becomes a big concern and reason to shield ourselves from the data thieves sits on the top priority.

Thinking about how to do that? Here are some of the best file encryption tools in the market which you can use to encrypt files and some important media as compiled by the lifehacker with some inputs from the Wikipedia as well.

# AxCrypt

AxCrypt is one of the best open source file encryption software for Windows. This software flawlessly integrates with Windows to compress, encrypt, decrypt, store, send and work with individual files.

One of the best parts of the file system is that it can be translated into your preferred languages like Dutch, Finnish, French and many others allowing you to use them easily in every part of the world.

The usage on the software is pretty easy where you can right-click a file to encrypt it, or even configure "timed," executable encryptions. After this the file is locked down for a specific period of time and will self-decrypt later or the when the file is received by the person.

The AxCrypt files can be decrypted when possible or continue to be decrypted when in use and then automatically re-encrypted when they're modified or closed.

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