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Secret Vault

This section describes how to protect data using secret vaults.

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About Secret Vault

How to move files to a secret vault

How to access files stored in a secret vault
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About Secret Vault

Available only in Kaspersky Plus and Kaspersky Premium.

Secret Vaults is designed to protect your confidential data against unauthorized access. A Secret Vault is a data storage on your computer that you can lock or unlock using the password that only you know. You have to enter the password to modify the files stored in a secret vault. If you have entered an invalid password 10 times in a row, access to the secret vault is blocked for one hour.

If you lose or forget the password, you will not be able to recover your data.

To create a secret vault, the Kaspersky application uses the AES XTS data encryption algorithm with an effective key length of 56 bits.

If the FAT32 file system is used on your computer, you can create secret vaults no more than 4 GB in size.

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How to move files to a secret vault
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How to move files to a secret vault

To move files to a secret vault:

  1. Open the main application window.
  2. Go to the Privacy section.
  3. In the Secret Vault section, perform one of the following:

If you do not have a secret vault yet

  1. Click the Create vault button.
  2. In the Secret Vault window, click Add and select files in Windows Explorer or drag and drop files into the Kaspersky application window.

    The selected files appear in the Secret Vault window.

  3. Click the Continue button.
  4. Enter the secret vault name and specify its location or use the default values of these settings.
  5. Enter the size of the secret vault.
  6. To be able to access the secret vault quickly, select the Create desktop shortcut for secret vault check box.
  7. Click the Continue button.
  8. Fill out the Password to access the secret vault and Confirm password fields and click Continue.
  9. Select what to do with the source copies of files outside the secret vault:
    • To delete source copies of files outside the secret vault, click Delete.
    • To keep source copies of files outside the secret vault, click Skip.
  10. Click the Done button.

    The list of secret vaults displays the secret vault you just created.

  11. To lock the secret vault, click the Lock button.

    Data in a locked secret vault becomes available only after a password is entered.

If you already have a secret vault

  1. Click the I already have a secret vault link to go to the Secret Vault window.
  2. In the Secret Vault window, select your secret folder and click Open.
  3. Enter the password and click Open in Windows Explorer.

    This opens the secret vault in Windows Explorer.

  4. Move your files to the secret vault.
  5. Close the Windows Explorer window.
  6. In the Kaspersky application interface, in the Secret Vault window, click Close.

When adding files with identical names, which differ only in character case, to the secret vault, one of the files can be unavailable when trying to open the secret vault. To avoid data loss, we recommend adding such files to different secret vaults or changing the file names to completely unique ones.

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How to access files stored in a secret vault
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How to access files stored in a secret vault

To access files stored in a secret vault:

  1. Open the main application window.
  2. Go to the Privacy section.
  3. Under Secret Vault, click I already have a secret vault.

    This opens the Secret Vault window.

  4. Click Open next to your secret vault.
  5. Enter the password and click the Open in Windows Explorer button.

Files stored in the secret vault appear in the Explorer window. You can edit the files as needed or add new files and close the secret vault again.

Trying to open a secret vault that you have renamed may cause an error. To avoid this, we recommend that you open the secret vault you want to rename, extract your data, and create a new secret vault with this data, giving it a different name.

Sometimes opening secret vaults created in other Kaspersky applications can require converting the secret vaults from the old format to the new format. When you try to open a secret vault in the Kaspersky application interface, the Kaspersky application will suggest conversion if necessary.

Secret vault conversion to the new format can take a long time depending on the secret vault size.

If, when removing the Kaspersky application, in the Save the following data on this computer for reuse window, the Operational settings of the application check box is cleared, and the Secret Vault check box is selected, the next time you install the current or future version of the Kaspersky application, you will need to add the secret vaults manually by clicking the I already have a secret vault link in the Secret Vault window.

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