What Is Pryvit? > Executive View

Pryvit ... the electronic equivalent of a paper shredder:

Low cost paper shredders slice documents into thin strips. Better shredders cut the strips into short pieces. The best shredders produce tiny, tiny fragments.

Digital files need confidentiality too ... correspondence, reports, messages, sound and video segments, etc. Pryvit slices and dices any kind of computer data whatsoever into fragments only 1 to 16 characters in length. The tiny fragments are individually manipulated to make each one unrecognizable. The fragments from multiple files are randomly mixed together within a "privacy archive".

Pryvit ... disperses disguised fragments worldwide:

The Internet -- so public, yet such a great place to hide things! Your privatized files are even harder to hack if fragments are disguised and scrambled in anonymous files in subdirectories with long random names on servers spread from Brisbane to Dublin to San Francisco. They can also be hidden on local area networks, off-line storage media, a portable USB hard drive on your key-chain, etc.

Pryvit ... reconstitutes shredded electronic files:

Unshredder? De-shredder? We need new words for what Pryvit does. Do you want your files back? No problem. At an authorized person's command on an authorized computer, Pryvit calls back the fragments and reworks them into the sensitive computer files in their original form. Recovery is reliable, because it is guided by a compressed "reconstitution formula" tucked away in a reconstitution file. Recovery is prompt because the privacy protected archive files can all be accessible at e-data speeds.

Pryvit ... targeted sharing over the Internet:

Confidentiality and publication can go hand in hand. Park the privacy archive files in obscure places on the Internet, then pass out versions of the reconstitution file that will work only from targeted computers -- whether one or a thousand. Targeted publication can be fully automated. Reconstitution formulas are new for every new batch of files, so it is secure and easy to remove someone from the sharing list.

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