Program to encrypt files with my fingerprint


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If it can save passwords, can it not save the password for a passworded&encrypted RAR archive? Try swiping your finger when you're at the password prompt to enter the password, after typing the password. I doubt this'll work though.

With me, I can only do that stuff for IE7&Firefox, not WLM/Steam, etc.

I'm not sure what else to recommended, other than having to purchase a upek product.

Well, technically I don't believe there is any software capable of "using your fingerprint to encrypt data." That is, nobody actually uses anything about your fingerprint to actually do the encryption. Instead, your fingerprint is accepted as valid identification to give you access to the private key which was used to encrypt the data.

One option available to you, assuming you aren't running a Home version of Windows, is to use the EFS file encryption support that is built-in to Windows. Then, because you can login to Windows using your fingerprint reader, you are in effect using your fingerprint to access your encrypted data.

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