If there are applications that can help us encrypt files that we save on the hard drive of our personal computer, Why not do the same with the cloud hosting service? Without wanting to suggest that DropBox is one of the most popular cloud services at the moment, but there are a large number of people who use it and therefore, it would be advisable to put in place certain security measures.
Being an intangible space for us (as DropBox users), someone could imagine that this task is impossible to perform, since the possibility of encrypting files can only occur in those folders, directories or files that are saved on our hard drive. Advantageously, if there is an alternative that can help us carry out these protection tasks with files in the cloud, something that we will mention below and supported by a simple tool that has the ability to do it in a very easy way.
What do we need to encrypt files in DropBox?
The only thing we are going to require for the moment is a application that has the name of SooKasa, which will help us encrypt the files that we have saved in the DropBox service; the tool we mentioned above we will have to download it from the official website, subsequently proceeding to install it in our operating system. We will be able to notice that an icon will appear on the desktop that represents the tool, which we will use in a creative way that perhaps no one thought of before.
Previously we must suggest to the reader, that log in to DropBox with the respective access credentials, since this is the first requirement that we will need to execute so that everything is linked automatically and almost without our intervention. If we have already entered the cloud storage service, then now we will only have to iInstall SooKasa for service synchronization to run immediately.
It is worth mentioning slightly that the developer of SooKasa has taken very seriously the security of the files that we wish to encrypt with his proposal, since on his part He has come to call this tool “my house is his house”; Now, you can download and use this application completely free If you undertake that its use will be clearly and exclusively personal, Otherwise you will have to acquire an official license under the payment method.
Continuing with our original task, after having installed this application We will be able to notice a few changes in the DropBox service, because upon entering it we will notice the presence of a new folder that has the name SooKasa, this is because the tool tries to make things easier for the end user by suggesting that this is the place where all those files will have to be hosted. files that you want to encrypt.
For this reason, if we are working on our computer we should locate the place where all those files are located that we want to encrypt within DropBox, only having to drag them to the folder created by the tool that we suggested previously.
The process is practically automatic, something you can realize if you use the context menu; This means that if you want an easy way to send your files from your personal computer, to the folder where they will be encrypted, you would only have to search for the file using the file explorer; By using the right mouse button on the file you will notice that a new option has increased in the context menu, which will help you automatically send the file to the SooKasa folder in DropBox.
As if this were not enough, you can also share some of these files once they are hosted in said folder; To do this, you just have to enter the DropBox service with the respective credentials, enter the folder that the tool created and then select the file you want to share, with the right mouse button.
In this case, you must choose the option that says "share sookasa through a link." You will have to go to this link Send it to your friends so they can review how to use said item.
You can also define an expiration time for this file, a feature that will automatically turn it into a self-destructing file, this being an alternative to what we suggested previously with another similar tool.