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Product overview
Interscope BlackBox is a modular and extensible security suite, designed for
the 32-bit Windows platforms, which offers fast and
easy-to-use solutions for data protection, secure data distribution
and safe data disposal.
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BlackBox was designed to be as easy to use and user friendly as possible. All its features can
be accessed from more than one place (e.g. the Start Menu, the desktop, the Send To menu,
the system tray, file and folders context menus, etc.) and most tasks can be performed in several ways.
BlackBox uses encryption and wiping to secure your data and features two types of encryption: file and text.
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File encryption
File encryption is tightly integrated into the Windows shell,
making encrypting/decrypting files as easy as right-clicking them
and entering a password.
Even better, BlackBox can maintain a security set for you
(essentially a list of sensitive files and folders that you must protect). Your
security set logically binds together all your protected files, possibly spread across
several folders or drives, and lets you lock or unlock all of them with
a right-click and typing a password.
Secure data distribution
BlackBox can compress and/or encrypt your files into self-extracting archives.
Such archives can contain (and restore, of course) whole directory structures,
so that you can organize your data better. This makes for an ideal distribution
medium across unsecure channels or connections (e.g. the Internet).
Wiping
BlackBox can dispose securely and irreversibly of your data. You simply drag your
files and/or folders to the Shredder icon on your desktop and you're done.
Data that goes through the shredder cannot be recovered, even if a low-level disk
utility or a hardware recovery tool is used.
The US Department of Defense  (DoD) has approved overwriting for purging data.
The Computer Security Center has issued a
Guide to Understanding Data Remanence in Automated Information Systems
(NCSC-TG-025) that explains the requirements for overwriting. BlackBox allows you to meet and exceed these specifications.
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Text encryption
With BlackBox you can encrypt any text message or document (e.g. the
text on the clipboard, in any window on your screen or any Microsoft Word document).
This is different from file encryption because the encrypted text is still printable.
You can process, store or send the encrypted text using the same tools and in the same way
as you would the plain text. Such a feature is ideal for working with secure text
in any of your current or future applications, without
requiring a specific BlackBox plug-in to be built for them.
Secure e-mail
Since e-mail is just text you read or write in a window and attachments are just files
- and both of these BlackBox can protect - your e-mail can be secured by BlackBox.
If you are using Microsoft Outlook 2000 or Microsoft Outlook Express 4.x or 5.x for e-mail,
BlackBox comes with plug-ins that integrate into these applications and provide you with
instant secure messaging.
Automation
If you need to secure data regularly or unattended, BlackBox can also be driven using command line parameters.
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