Document encryption

Document encryption

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I understand by May 2018 any tax accounting documents sent to clients have to be encrypted  under data protection ?

Does anyone know of any decent and reasonably priced encryption software.  I don't want to use Citrix as they seem to have randon pricing which is high then you tell him no interested then they half it.  I think they are targeting accountants at the moment for obvious reasons

 

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By Tim Vane
24th Jul 2017 14:45

Jim100 wrote:

I understand by May 2018 any tax accounting documents sent to clients have to be encrypted  under data protection ?

Understand from whom?

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Adrian Pearson
By Adrian Pearson
24th Jul 2017 19:16

Hi Jim, are you sure this is a coming requirement - and not some vested interest's interpretation?

The easist and free way to encrypt a file is compress it using Winzip and add a password.

See http://www.winzip.com/win/en/learn/encrypt-files.html

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By gphemy
25th Jul 2017 10:08

Could it be a reference to the implementation of GDPR, the General Data Protection Regulation?

If you are serious about encryption, rather than paying lip-service to regulations, perhaps it would be wise to use your favoured search engine to find out current availability of "password recovery" applications for encrypted WinZip archives. Not that you would want or need to use one, of course.

And if you are *really* serious about encryption, you should consider PGP. There are plenty of PGP-based encryption products, some commercial, some public domain (and the core of PGP is most certainly public domain, and deliberately so), running on all manner of operating systems. I can vouch for an Outlook add-on gpg4o which makes use of PGP encryption pretty simple if you use Outlook email. Except for private use, it is not free, but not expensive either, and the licence fee brings helpful prompt support. I have no connection with the developer other than as a user. Be aware that implementation requires effort at both ends - sender and receiver - and in my experience implementing PGP applications (other than gpg4o) can be very frustrating. But doable, even on Android. And eventually on iPad too, but clunkily!

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