Top Secret Crypto Gold is a software suite that offers file and email encryption, along with Top Secret Chat and Journal features. It also includes spellchecking for all features. It is free for personal use, while commercial use requires a low-cost license.
One of the standout features of Top Secret Crypto Gold is the ability to conduct an encrypted peer-to-peer chat securely over the internet, as well as maintain an encrypted journal or diary of daily thoughts, ideas, and notes, all for personal private use. However, commercial use requires an inexpensive license.
The software also offers five new spell checking dictionaries in Danish, French, German, Italian, and Spanish for more language support, and is now easy to use with any e-mail program including Yahoo! Mail, MSN Hotmail, Gmail, IncrediMail, or FoxMail.
For more personalization, users can select from 180 different smileys and insert pictures into e-mail messages and journal entries. The software also includes a Virtual Keyboard that protects against keyboard logging and password sniffing programs.
Top Secret Crypto Gold includes RSA Key Creation, Public and Secret Key Ring Management procedures, data compression procedures, e-mail and file encryption procedures, One Time Pad Key File and True One Time Pad File creation, and a completely customizable toolbar with 47 toolbar buttons. Users can also create and print "One Time Pads" for use in secure handwritten correspondence.
The strength of Top Secret Crypto Gold lies in its three basic concepts: a true source of random bits provided by the program, a large key space for the pseudo-random number generators, and a simple encryption formula. RSA key sizes range from 480 to 16,384 bits, and conventional key sizes range from 325 to 20,262 bits or as long as the entire message if using a True One Time Pad File for encryption.
Overall, Top Secret Crypto Gold is a comprehensive encryption software with a range of features and customization options for personal and commercial use. Users can also seek support from the new support forum to have their questions answered.
Version 4.10.000: Updated to Zlib 1.2.3 which corrects some security issues with the compression library.
Version 4.00.000: Added Sha512 support and five new spell checking dictionaries: Danish, German, Italian, French, and Spanish. Updated to Zlib 1.2.2.