Hidden Containers

BestCrypt creates virtual drives on your computer. All data to be written to the virtual drive are placed into the container in encrypted form. The encryption algorithms used in BestCrypt are reliable, and the container cannot be decrypted without knowing the correct password.

But under some circumstances the user may be forced to disclose the password to his container. For this reason someone may wish to hide the existence of encrypted containers on the computer.

There are a variety of methods for hiding sensitive data inside graphic or sound files so that it is impossible to determine whether the original files contain extra information inside. That method is known as steganography.

Unfortunately, the use of sound or graphic files to hide an encrypted container has several disadvantages:

degradation of the system performance, since a lot of useless data must be read from the original files to extract the encrypted information;
an original file has to be 2-4 times larger than the encrypted container hidden within. For example, if you want to create a 100 MB container, you must have a 200-400 MB sound file.
extremely large graphic or sound files (hundreds Megabytes) available will arouse suspicion.

So what are the alternatives? Let's assume that we use steganography, but we hide the encrypted containers inside of BestCrypt containers themselves rather than inside of graphics files. Now we'll get two kinds of containers: original and hidden (hidden containers are stored inside the original containers). Using this kind of steganography, BestCrypt is far superior to the conventional sound or graphic method of steganography, because:

performance of the hidden containers is the same as the performance of the original containers;
hiding containers in this way does not waste space;
the potential intruder cannot prove whether an additional (hidden) container exists or not.

NOTE: IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT YOU READ THE "PRECAUTIONS" AND "SOME ADVICE" SECTIONS TO ENSURE THAT YOU USE THE HIDDEN CONTAINERS PROPERLY.