Why I brought it back

Thirty years later, privacy still belongs to you.

In 1996, I created Encryption 1 for a fairly simple reason: I wanted people to be able to protect their own information.

At the time, that meant a Windows program that could encrypt basic text documents and select image formats. There was no cloud storage, no smartphone, no social media, and no expectation that nearly everything we did online would be collected, stored, analyzed, or tracked.

The technology has changed enormously since then, but the reason I built Encryption 1 hasn't.

Thirty years is a long time

Encryption 1 was put on pause. Life moved on. Technology changed. The way we use computers changed. The internet became something far larger than anyone could have imagined in 1996. But one idea never really went away for me:

Your private information should remain yours.

That idea became even more relevant as the years passed.

Today, we don't just have documents and a few photographs on our computers. We have family photographs, financial records, identification documents, personal correspondence, business information, passwords, authentication codes, and countless other pieces of information that we may not want handed over to someone else simply because we need to use a computer.

And protecting those things shouldn't require you to become a cybersecurity expert.