Chapter 4. Kaspersky
®
DataSafe
for Pocket PC
4.1. Purpose and main functions
Kaspersky
®
DataSafe for Pocket PC is developed to protect the confidential data
on a PDA running Pocket PC from unauthorized access by encrypting this data.
Kaspersky
®
DataSafe for Pocket PC allows you to:
•
Create special
confidential files
on your PDA
that allow you to store
confidential data. The placement of data to a confidential file and access
to this data is implemented by using a special mounting procedure, which
results in the creation of a special
confidential folder
.
•
Open confidential files
that were created on other PDAs using the
Kaspersky
®
DataSafe for Pocket PC program. If you have copied a confi-
dential file from another PDA and you know the password for the data lo-
cated within the file, you can open it and use it the same way as you do
with confidential files created on your PDA.
•
Mount confidential folders
. Confidential folders can be mounted only if
you use the appropriate password. The mounted confidential folders are
listed by the PDA file system as expansion cards or network folders. You
can use these folders the same way as you use any conventional folder;
i.e. you can save data within them and edit it.
•
Unmount confidential folders
. After you have completed working with
confidential data, you can unmount the confidential folder. All the data is
stored in a confidential file in encrypted form and cannot be accessed
without entering the appropriate password.
All the data within your confidential folders is encrypted. Encryption and
decryption of the data is performed by the program "on-the-fly", i.e. the
user (and the applications on his/her PDA) sees the contents of the
folder and the open text of the files located within it, but the data is
stored within the PDA memory only in encrypted form.
