SafeHouse version 2 introduces several new features, improvements and refinements; the most-significant of which are listed below. The SafeHouse volume file format has not changed, which allows volumes created with previous versions of SafeHouse to be compatible with this new version.
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Improved support for Windows Me and Windows 2000. |
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The maximum size of an encrypted SafeHouse volume has been increased to 2048GB on Windows NT/2000/XP using NTFS. For Windows 98/Me, the maximum is 4GB which is a limitation of the FAT32 disk format. The previous limit was 2 GB on all platforms. |
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The internal volume disk format now supports the FAT32 format in addition to FAT12 and FAT16 which were previously supported. Volumes can also be created without a file system and later be formatted with NTFS using the standard hard disk formatting utilities which come with Windows. |
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Volumes can be compacted (shrunk). Previously, only expansion was supported. |
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The Twofish encryption algorithm is available in both 128- and 256-bit strengths. |
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The new Advanced Encryption Standard algorithm (AES), Rijndael, is supported in both 128- and 256-bit strengths. |
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A variety of changes have been made to the SafeHouse utility wizards to make them easier to use. |
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The file extension for SafeHouse volumes has changed from .DSK to .SDSK in order to be compatible with the new System File Protection feature introduced by Microsoft inWindows Me. This change is implemented on all Windows platforms. You must manually rename your volumes to use the .SDSK extension if they were created with a prior version of SafeHouse since the SafeHouse utilities will scan only for this extension. |
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Volumes with the read-only attribute are treated as write-protected media. |
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SafeHouse no longer includes 16-bit utilities and drivers to support running on PC-DOS, MS-DOS or Windows 3.1. |
The changes made to v2.10 are listed below.
