Photo Encryption: 3 Ways to Protect Photos on USB Drive

Photo, which photographed by the professional device, always takes a large memory volume in your computer and smart phone. Therefore, storing photos in the USB drive becomes the best choice of most people.

Encrypting photos can protect them from being corrupted by malware if the photos are important to you, and if the photos are private for you, it also can prevent photos from being leaked once the USB drive is lost. If necessary, this artical might help you: How to fix a currupted USB drive without formatting on Windows 10

Learn from this article, and there are three ways for you to encrypt your photos quickly and easily.

Way 1: Encrypt specific folder of photos with WinRAR

WinRAR, an encryption software, is one of the most popular encryption methods. Users can encrypt the photos within a few steps. Here will introduce to you about how to use WinRAR to encrypt photos.

Step 1: Download and install WinRAR firstly, after that put all the photos that you want to encrypt into a folder, right-click the folder and select Add to Archive.

Step 2: Click Set password in the pop-up window.

Step 3: Type and confirm the password you set up in the input box, and click OK button if you confirm your password.

Way 2: Use iSunshare SafeUSB Genius to encrypt USB drive

iSunshare SafeUSB Genius, a USB encryption tool, can protect the photos stored on USB drives from being accessed by others and can help you protect the USB disk safely and quickly in seconds. It allows you to encrypt, decrypt, unlock, and lock your USB data within simple clicks without BitLocker.

Step 1: Launch the software and plug your USB drive into your PC. Then the software will automatically detect the information of your USB drive.

Step 2: There are four options that appear on the software: Encrypt, Decrypt, Lock, and Unlock. Click on the Encrypt button to start.

Step 3: You need to set up a password of at least 6 digits or letters and enter it twice. After that, click Encrypt to start encrypting your USB data.

Step 4: Soon, your USB drive has been successfully encrypted. Click OK in the following pop-up dialog box to end the encryption.

Way 3: Use BitLocker to encrypt the USB drive

BitLocker is a feature that has been around for a long time and provides a way to encrypt your photos on the USB drive to prevent unauthorized access. BitLocker can encrypt the entire USB drive.

Step 1: Double-click on My PC, in the file explorer, right-click the inserted USB drive and select the item Turn on BitLocker.

Step 2: In the pop-out dialogue box you will be asked to "choose how much of your drive to encrypt", tick the mode you preferred (the first option “Encrypt used disk space only” is recommended), and then click on Next button.

Step 3: Then, choose Compatible mode in the window.

Step 4: After that, tick the checkbox "Use a password to unlock the drive" firstly, set up your password, and click Next button to go on.

Step 5: Unlike password for a specific account, there is no "forget password" for BitLocker Drive Encryption. So, don't forget to back up recovery key and restore it carefully. Same as the first three steps, choose in which you'd like to keep your recovery key. ("Save to a file" is recommended)

Step 6: When USB drive is successfully encrypted, it shows with a big golden lock on it to indicate that it's locked.

Conclusion

Although the encrypted function in WinRAR and BitLocker is very convenient and used by most users, the cracking methods are also easy to get your photos. Unless users set a complicated password when encrypting data, or the password can be cracked in few minutes.
Compared with WinRAR and BitLocker, iSunshare SafeUSB Genius is a robust encryption tool not only because it's convenient but also can protect your insensitive photos with its high efficiency and security.