Caution: At the moment InstantCrypt experiences intermittent, but serious problems when running under Windows 7 (and maybe under Windows Vista) during key creation and key signing. It is unclear if and when these problems can be fixed.

1. Send Secure Email with InstantCrypt

InstantCrypt secures your email , using the Open PGP encryption standard.

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2. Easy-to-Use and Secure

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Ease of Use:

1. Fast to Install: Download, doubleclick on the installer, and you are set to go.
2. Connects easily to your previously installed email or Webmail: does not require change of or fiddling with your email programs.
3. Keeps the needed knowledge of public-key encryption to a minimum.
4. Is able to (or at least should be able to) exchange email messages with other programs that use the Open PGP standard, e.g., PGP itself or any GPG-powered open source program.

Security:

1. The program uses public-key cryptography as specified by the established Open PGP standard; its encryption engine is GPG.
   • The used encryption algorithms are considered to be secure, i.e., a text or file thus encrypted cannot be read by someone who does not have access to the key for which it was encrypted.
   • This includes, to the best knowledge of the author of this program, private or government agencies that have access to the currently available most sophisticated methods.
   • However, the author does not accept legal liability for this statement, as in this field one can never be sure, one can just try one's best.
2. The program encrypts on your computer, so that your mail cannot be intercepted on its way to or from your email server or email provider.
3. Your private key is generated and stored on your own computer, not on someone's server.

Special Features:

InstantCrypt does: En-/Decrypt text *and* file(s) in a single process. Decrypt PGP/MIME files, so you can read messages from email plug-ins. Have a reply function for email-like convenience. Save everything you do in chronological order.	InstantCrypt has: Welcome Page for new or entry-level users. Routines to facilitate key exchange. Extensive Help files Demo videos.
To summarize, InstantCrypt facilitates secure email exchange - with a low threshold for beginning users ("easy to install, easy to use") - without sacrificing security or giving up too much convenience - while interoperating with other OpenPGP programs.

(InstantCrypt cannot [because for normal secure e-mail exchange, these features are not a priority]: Clearsign and make and verifiy detached signature for files.

3. What this Program Does Not Do

This Program does not secure your own computer:

The purpose of this program is to make your outside communication secure. This program does not:

1. Encrypt your computer hard disk.
2. Destroy the unencrypted versions of the texts or files that you just encrypted.

Be aware that someone interested in secrets stored on your computer has your computer as his first and primary target.
Get a specialist if you need an all-encompassing solution.

InstantCrypt: Secure email with OpenPGP encryption