BitClamp: Drag & Drop Encryption Coming for Mac

Here at MacApper there are more than a couple of independent software developers who willfully donate their time writing about their experiences working with Mac. Today one of our writers (and all around good guy) Daniel Greg from the UK, showed me an application he has been hard at work on and it really knocked my socks off. Daniel, who’s just 18, told me his security tool BitClamp would change the way people do encryption on Mac, and from what I have just seen I know he is right.

Encrypting and decrypting files with BitClamp is a seamless drag & drop procedure. Drop your file in the window, set a passphrase, and *poof* it’s encrypted. Daniel limited me to what I am able to say about BitClamp but he did allow me to tell you a few tidbits. Sorry no screenshots yet guys.

BitClamp is loosely based around some well known open sourced frameworks and is an implementation of the OpenPGP standard. Support is already included for the following forms of encryption:

• AES 128-bit
• Serpent 128-bit
• Blowfish 64-bit

Daniel promises that the list of supported encryption algorithms will grow as BitClamp matures, and that there are some really outstanding features coming. He says the utility will be ‘Encryption for the rest of us’ and from what I have seen I can tell you that the app is incredibly simple, fast, and already quite polished. I guarantee your little sister can use it.

I’m sworn to secrecy on any type of release date, other than - really soon. I have also been told the expected price point and it is much less than I would have guessed - not much more than the price of lunch.

Got your attention? Head over to Crimson Sky Software for the latest updates on a release of BitClamp. As usual you can expect a full-on review as soon as BitClamp is released here at MacApper.