Scrambler lets you encrypt your files to keep them safe from prying eyes. This is especially important when sending files to other Macs over untrusted email, instant messaging, and cloud-based services, or storing them on untrusted locations like USB memory sticks or portable external drives.
Scrambler is a simple encryption app for the Mac.
- Drag a file on Scrambler's icon in the menu bar
- Type a password
- Encrypt To decrypt an encrypted file, just drag it back on Scrambler and type in the same password.
Notes:
- You can also drag folders, or a collection of files and folders, on Scrambler they will be encrypted into a single encrypted file.
- The recipients of your encrypted files do not necessarily have to purchase Scrambler. They can download a free "decrypt-only" version of the app called Descrambler, also available from the same developer. Technical Details:
- Uses industry-standard tar archiving and gzip compression
- Uses secure industry-standard AES-256 encryption
- Uses industry-standard base-64 encoding
- Preserves Mac OS X metadata of files, including extended attributes
- Encrypted files can, if desired, be decrypted using standard Terminal commands Expected in Future Versions:
- The ability to automatically delete the original file(s) after encryption, and to automatically delete the encrypted file after decryption
- Other features as per user requests Version 1.1.4 introduced the following improvements:
- Fixes a bug that in some cases caused an error/crash during encryption. Version 1.1.2 introduced the following improvements:
- Fixes a bug that made it unable for some users to launch the app.
- Some minor internal improvements. Version 1.1 introduced the following improvements:
- The file size limitation of 250 MB has been removed; users can now encrypt as large files as they want.
- Adds a progress indicator that shows the percentage completion of the encryption/decryption.
- Encryption and decryption can now be cancelled during progress.
- Encryption and decryption are now dramatically more memory-efficient.
- Fixes a bug that sometimes, in rare cases, made it impossible to decrypt scrambled files.
- Fixes various other minor bugs.
- The underlying codebase has been completely reworked to take full advantage of new technologies provided in Mac OS X Lion. For the user, this results in a nice performance boost. For the developer, this provides a great foundation for further improvements.