Ace on Tech: Stardust Ed.

In my previous ‘Free File’ article, I briefly reviewed the open-source compression-utility 7-Zip. Like most other archiving tools, 7-Zip is also capable of encrypting your files. To do this, it utilizes industry standard AES-256 encryption (a.k.a. Rijn Dael) and recommends a password strength of 10 characters or more. The Help-function in 7-Zip has a nice illustration [...]

7-Zip is an open-source, multi-platform compression/decompression tool that introduces it’s own high-performing compression format, called 7z, alongside the industry standard ZIP and others.