 Hello everybody, my name is Hisham. I'm from Justice in Peace and welcome to this quick tutorial in which we are going to see a couple of basic ways to use VeraCrypt, which is a free open software that will allow you to encrypt your files. VeraCrypt is available on many repositories online, one of the most popular being CodePlex and make sure that you download the latest version, which by the time we were recording this tutorial was the 1.19 version, which is the most stable. Once you download VeraCrypt, you will be able to open this interface that will allow you to create a virtual volume, a virtual box in which you can put all the files that you want to encrypt. So let's see how this works. To create that little box, click on the create volume button and this will lead you to the VeraCrypt volume creation wizard and just follow the instructions as we show on the screen. Just so you know, there is a way to not only encrypt a file but also hide a file within the system, which is the advanced way of encrypting files using VeraCrypt. But for the time being, we will stick with the standard method of creating an encrypted volume using VeraCrypt. So we click next. VeraCrypt will then invite us to name that volume and save it somewhere where we can find it. We want to keep the default encryption standards as they are, so we click next and then we choose a volume size for our little box. We then click next and create a long and strong and complex password. Make sure that you remember that password. You can also use keypass to store your password and then we keep our encryption and formatting standards as they are. So we click next and then we build randomness into VeraCrypt by moving the mouse on the screen. So this process may take a couple minutes, so let's speed up the video at this point. And that's it. VeraCrypt says that the file also known as the partition or volume has been created and so now let's see how we can use it to encrypt and protect all kinds of files. So first thing to do is to click on select file and then go and look for the file that you've just created and then click on mount. Mount meaning that you are building the box or decrypting the box. You will have them to enter the password that you've created earlier and therefore you will be able to open that box. Just double-click on the line that has just appeared and there you go. This is the box in which you can literally drag and drop all the files that you want to protect. Let's see a demonstration of how this works. It's very easy. Now let's suppose we have a couple of files we want to encrypt. In this case two text files and two pictures. All you have to do is drag them into your little box. Make sure that you destroy any original files if you don't want to keep any traces on your computer and once you do that you then have to dismount the file by clicking on the that button. Dismount meaning that you are encrypting the file. In other words, you are closing the box and put in a padlock on top of it and keep in the key in your pocket. So once it is dismounted then you can safely save it in your computer. You can also save a backup copy of it on any popular cloud service like Google. Drive or Dropbox. You can also transport it using your USB drive and if you try to open it without Veracrypt and without your password all you get is pages upon pages of complete nonsense. gibberish that is impossible to decrypt without your password and without the use of Veracrypt. And as we said you can transport that file using a USB and then open it on any other computer provided that you have installed Veracrypt on that particular computer. So as you can see it's very easy to use, it's very convenient, it's free, it's open source and therefore reasonably safe. Thank you for watching.