Command Line Option

Encryption Protection can be executed by a command line to facilitate the periodical tasks of securing files with a given key-phrase. This way, a pre-determined working process of either encrypting, decrypting or shredding a file can be done by a single click on a button. Besides, any other program installed on your system that is capable of implementing a command line can automatically assign Encryption Protection with a task, provided all the required elements to form such a command line were previously specified. If you don't want to feed another application with an Encryption Protection-command-line, we recommend to create a simple shortcut on your desktop that will carry and initiate it.

What you need to do is, go to your Encryption Protection installation folder (probably in c:\program files\Encryption Protection), right click the Encryption Protection executable file and choose 'Send To > Desktop (Create Shortcut)'. Go to your desktop, right click your shortcut, open the 'Properties' tab, look for the path of the shortcut to the actual executable file in your Encryption Protection application folder and navigate to the location of the Encryption Protection exe file at the command prompt, write the exe file name and press the space bar once. Then write the argument(s) in the same line and press the Enter Key from the keyboard. The Exe will be executed accordingly. If you are looking to execute the File Shredder through a command line, same method will be used. The following elements are needed in this very order to form a command line to either encode or decode:

Start with the path to the executable file of the Encryption Protection application in its installation folder. Probably it will be:

c:\program files\EncryptionProtection\Encryption Protection.exe [ENCODE][DECODE][SHRED] Src =[FileName]
Dest =[Destination Path] Key = [KeyFile]

Src= This is the path of the source file you intend to either encode or decode.

Dest= This is the path of the destination file the results of this task will be saved in. If you are encoding some data, the destination file will need to have an .epf -extension. If you are decoding a file, the destination file will need to have exact the same extension it had before it was encoded.

Key= This is the path of to the file on your computer containing your key-phrase. All key-phrases saved from within the Encryption Protection application have a different extension. A key-phrase named "mykey" will be saved on your computer as "mykey.eKey ". You will need include the extension of your key-phrase into this path. However, if you saved your key with a notepad, it has the, txt-extension only but this key file will not be good enough for the command line decryption.

Encryption Protection totally obeys to your command line, it does not correct any wrongly specified extensions. When you are naming the path of a file to be decrypted in the src-parameter, you need to recall the original extension of that file it had before it was encrypted.