How to

Click “Next” to continue the installation of HiCrypt™ 2.0

Select the destination folder for the installation of HiCrypt™ 2.0 and confirm by clicking “Next”.

Decide whether HiCrypt™ 2.0 should ignore removing the token or not. This setting is useful if you use the token with other software for authenticating at the computer (e.g. Secure Logon). If the token is removed the computer will be locked by default. But HiCrypt™ 2.0 would also trigger the token remove event and you would be logged out from the encrypted network drive where you are currently logged in using a token. A loss of data could happen because files can be opened at logout and can not be saved any more.

Please decide whether to token remove event should be ignored by HiCrypt™ 2.0 and select “Next” to continue the installation.

Start the installation by clicking “Install”.

During the installation the files of HiCrypt™ 2.0 are copied and configured on your computer.

To finish the installation you need to restart the computer. You can not use HiCrypt™ 2.0 until you have rebooted your system.

During the evaluation period you do not need any Product Key. Just activate the option “Evaluate for 30 days” and confirm by clicking “Next”.

If you already have a Product Key please choose the option “Enter Product Key”.

If you already have a Product Key please enter it here.

If you have entered a valid Product Key a green tick will appear at the end of the line. Please confirm by clicking “Next”.

Regardless of whether you have entered a Product Key or if you have chosen to use the 30 days evaluation period you have to activate HiCrypt™ 2.0 before you can use it. You can do so online or offline, either by phone or by e-mail.

Choose the option you need and confirm by clicking “Next”.

Online activation will be done immediately. Activation by phone requires one more step.

For the activation by phone you need the Response Key which is generated automatically. You can tell us the key by phone or send us an e-mail.

Afterwards you will receive an Activation Key which you need to insert in the dialog box.

To activate HiCrypt™ 2.0 please confirm the entered Activation Key by clicking “Next”.

Confirm the Activation Key you have entered by clicking “Next” to activate HiCrypt™ 2.0.

Click “Finish” to close the window. HiCrypt™ 2.0 has been successfully activated and can now be used.

You can change the Product Key at any time in the program.

Click on the HiCrypt™ 2.0 symbol at the task bar to open the program.

Sometimes the HiCrypt™ 2.0 symbol is not shown there because it is hidden. In this case please click on the button at the left hand side of the task bar to make hidden symbols visible.

You can use “Customize…” to make the HiCrypt™ 2.0 symbol visible permanently so that you always can access it immediately.

Another option for opening HiCrypt™ 2.0 is to use the shortcut in the start menu.

If you don not have any network drive mapped to your computer you can connect it with HiCrypt™ 2.0.

Choose “Connect to” and “Network share …” to connect a new network drive to a share.

Click “Next” to start the assistant to connect to a new network drive.

Read the information in the dialog box to set up the required settings for the new network drive in the next step and then use “Connect”.

Choose the required drive letter and insert the path to the network share for the new network drive. Use the offered options to configure the connection and click “Finish” to establish the network drive connection.

Close the dialog box by clicking “Finish”.

The connected network drive is now shown in HiCrypt™ 2.0.

Mark the network drive and use the menu item “Edit” or right-click at the network drive and choose “Encrypt” in the context menu to encrypt the network drive.

Start the assistant who will guide you through the process of encrypting the network drive with “Next”.

Check the “Advanced settings” option to select the used encryption algorithm in the next step. Otherwise this step will be skipped and AES will be used.

Choose the encryption algorithm and confirm by clicking “Next”.

In the next step please enter username and password for the encrypted network drive. You will need this information to access the encrypted network drive.

The user you just created will be a manager of this network drive and will automatically get advanced access rights which will enable him to add additional users to the network drive or to decrypt the drive.

Confirm by clicking “Next”.

Encrypt the network drive be clicking “Encrypt”.

After successful encryption you will be logged in to the encrypted network drive automatically.

Close the dialog box by clicking “Finish”.

The network drive is now encrypted. All files stored there will be encrypted automatically.

For each additional network drive you want to be encrypted you will have to repeat this procedure.

If you connect to an encrypted network drive or if the encrypted network drive is already mapped to the computer after the user logged on, HiCrypt™ 2.0 will automatically ask for the username and password. Your logon data can be stored so that you can access the encrypted network drive automatically.

Mark the encrypted network drive whose users should be managed and choose the option “Manage users …” from the menu “Edit”.

In the “Manage users” dialog you can add new user, delete existing user or edit their access rights. Please note that the data of the user who has opened the “Manage users” dialog are protected and can not be changed during this process.

If you click on “Add new user …” the following dialog box will be opened.

In this dialog box you have to enter the username and password of the new user you want to create. The password needs to be confirmed by typing it twice.

You close the dialog box by clicking “Add”.

The new user has been added to the user list with the defined properties.

Now the new user appears in the user list with the permission level “user”. To create a user with the permission “manager” you start again with adding a new user.

In the upper part of the dialog box the permission level for a new user is set to “User” by default. The user only can access the data on an encrypted network drive but it is not possible for him to manage users or to decrypt data.

If you wish to give administrative rights to a user you have to choose the permission level “Manager”.

Please confirm by clicking “Add” and the dialog box will be closed.

The new manager is added to the user list.

To change the permission level of a user please mark the username and choose the option “Change permission level”. The user list will be updated immediately.

To delete a marked user please use the option “Delete user”.

The changes in the user list are displayed immediately.

All changes in this dialog box will only be applied when you confirm them by clicking “Close”.

Newly created users can only be used as soon as the changes have been confirmed.

If you have changed the permission level of a user these changes are only submitted after the user logs on the next time to the network drive. If a user is deleted he finally looses all access rights only when logging off.

The image shows the online view of the online storage. Here you can store files and folders similar to your own hard disk.

A lot of online storages already contain files by default. But the network drive has to be empty in order to encrypt it with HiCrypt™ 2.0. So you can not encrypt the complete online storage. The solution is to create a subfolder and to only encrypt the content of the subfolder.

A new folder will be created. In the image the new folder is worthwhile called “Safe”.

This folder can now be connected to a network drive with HiCrypt™ 2.0.

For that HiCrypt™ 2.0 offers a special assistant for connecting to online storages. You can start the assistant by clicking “Connect to” and “Online storage …” in the menu.

In the welcome dialog box please click “Next”.

In the next step a list of well-known online storages is displayed. If your online storage provider is not listed please select “Other online storage”.

In our example of Strato´s HiDrive you have to insert your username.

By clicking “Next” you will get to the next dialog.

According to your online storage provider selection and the username you have inserted a path is generated which will be used to connect a network drive to your online storage.

If you selected “Other online storage” in the previous dialog then no path is generated. You will have to enter it manually in the next step.

By clicking “Connect” the Windows default dialog box to map a network drive appears.

The path to the online storage has already been generated automatically so that you only need to confirm by clicking “Finish” to connect the network drive.

To connect to the online storage you have to log on to your provider. The logon credentials are the same you are using for logging in with your browser.

After the network drive has been connected successfully you can close the assistant for connecting the network drive to an online storage by clicking “Finish”.

HiCrypt™ 2.0 will show the connected network drive to the online storage in the list of connected network drives.

Now the network drive can be encrypted as usual.

During the encryption you will receive the following warning. This shows that the network drive is connected to a subfolder of the online storage. This was necessary because some of the online storage providers have already placed some data in the online storage so that a complete encryption is not possible.

To encrypt the network drive of the online storage please confirm the warning by clicking “Yes”.

After encryption the online storage will be shown as “encrypted” in HiCrypt™ 2.0.

Now you can only access the encrypted online storage with HiCrypt™ 2.0. It is not possible to access your data using the online view of the online storage provider as they can not decrypt the data. In order to access your data you need to connect your online storage to the network drive and log on to it with HiCrypt™ 2.0.

Create a new folder in the Dropbox folder which will be connected later to a network drive.

This folder is worthwhile called “data-safe”.

You need to share this folder in order to connect it to a network drive. To do so please display the properties of the folder.

In the tab “Sharing” please click on “Advanced Sharing…”. You need advanced privileges to proceed.

In the opening dialog box activate the option “Share this folder”. Enter a share name of your choice. By default the folder name will be used.

Now you have to change the permissions using the button “Permissions”.

For the encryption HiCrypt™ 2.0 requires full access to the network drive. To make it easy you may grant “Full access” to the group “Everyone”.

Confirm the new permissions with “OK” and close the window.

The shared folder permissions are working independently from the NTFS access rights. If you grant “Full Control” to “Everyone” every user with according NTFS privileges will have “Full Control” to the shared folder while a user with insufficient NTFS privileges is not able to access the share.

After you have applied the permissions you can share the folder by clicking “OK”.

Close the folder properties dialog by clicking “Close”.

Now you can connect the shared folder to a network drive with HiCrypt™ 2.0.

In the configuration settings the folder is the own computer followed by the name of the shared folder.

By clicking “Finish” the network drive will be connected and the dialog will be closed.

Now the new network drive is displayed in HiCrypt™ 2.0 …

… and can be encrypted.

The Dropbox folder which is connected to a network drive is now encrypted. You can only access it through the network drive. Access to the Dropbox folder will neither be encrypted nor decrypted.