Protected and private from prying eyes

Features: Security

AllenPort protects your data by:
• Storing it in at least 3 different locals 100s of miles away from each other
• Making your files invisible when you aren't logged in

AllenPort keeps your data private by:
• Encrypting all your files before copying them to our servers
• Making sure only you have the decryption key

Securing a file for your own use:

(Note: This is a particularly detailed and technical explanation of how AllenPort handles security.)

Every time you create a file, AllenPort does the following:

On your system, we create a randomly generated "shared" key that will be uniquely associated with this file. We use that key to encrypt the file with the same level of security as the US government uses for its top secret documents (256 bits).

We then take that file's shared key and encrypt it using your public key. Your public key is half of a public/private pair of keys that is unique to you and generated on your computer based on information you have supplied to AllenPort. Your private half of the key never leaves your local computer.

Your system uses your private key to decrypt the file's shared key. One of AllenPort's primary security points is that a file encrypted with a public key must be decrypted using the matching private key. The public key cannot be used to decrypt files.

Once your system has decrypted the file's shared key, the shared key is used to decrypt the file itself. Now the file is visible on your local system.

Sharing a file securely:

The steps for sharing a file are the same as for securing a file for your own use, plus the addition of one step...

The reader's system then uses the reader's private key to decrypt the file's shared key. The decrypted shared key is used to decrypt the file so the user can see it in the clear.

In this way, each person on the distribution list is able to see your encrypted file, but only people who are on the distribution list have this capability.