What encryption is, why most people do not use it, and what PolyLock™ does differently.
The security industry sells prevention: keep the attacker out. Attackers keep getting in, and when they do, the files they reach can be read, copied and sold. That is the part that turns an intrusion into notification letters, replacement cards, lawsuits and headlines. PolyLock™ does not try to be a taller wall. It makes the data worthless to whoever gets past one.
PolyLock™ is a new way to encrypt: several independent ways into one file, with its rules traveling inside it. It is patent pending, and it is simple to use.
Encryption turns a file into scrambled data that is useless without the right key. With the key, it turns back into the original, exactly. Done properly, the math is strong: the realistic way in is the key, not the lock.
Encryption belonged to governments and armies. Codes and ciphers protected war plans and diplomats’ messages.
Public-key cryptography let two strangers exchange a secret without ever meeting. It is what makes secure shopping and banking online possible.
Free tools put strong encryption within reach of people with a home computer. Few people ever used them.
Your web browsing and your messages are encrypted while they travel. Most files, once they arrive and are stored, are still readable.
Lock a file with a single key or password and lose it, or lose the person who held it, and the file is gone forever. For most people that risk is worse than the risk of being breached.
The usual answer is a hidden master key that lets someone else in. A way in for the helpdesk is a way in for an attacker who finds it.
A well-known 1999 study, “Why Johnny Can’t Encrypt,” found that most people given the leading encryption tool of the day could not use it correctly.
Organizations guard the network instead of the data. In IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2026, 53% of breached organizations had not encrypted their sensitive data.
PolyLock™ changes one thing: a file opens through several independent ways, not one key. There is more than one way back in, so a lost key is not a disaster, and there is no master key. The rest of PolyLock™ follows from that.
| How encryption has traditionally worked | How PolyLock™ works | |
|---|---|---|
| Keys | One key or one password | Several independent ways in, and at least two on each file |
| Lose the key | The file is gone | Still yours, through another way |
| Recovery | A hidden master key that someone else holds | A way you choose, written into the file in the open. No backdoor |
| Sharing | Hand over the key, and with it the file | Each person gets their own way in, by name |
| Where the protection lives | On the network, the server or the disk | On the file itself, wherever it goes |
| Once it leaves you | No further say | Open limits, expiry, time locks and location rules travel with the file |
| What it needs | Key servers, escrow and an administrator | No server of ours. Works offline |
| Using it | Hard enough that most people do not bother | Three big buttons: encrypt, open, share |
A photo, a video, a message, a contract, a bank statement, a medical record, a spreadsheet, source code. If a computer keeps it, PolyLock™ can encrypt it.
Your passwords, notes, signatures and contacts, in encrypted vaults, with an encrypted backup.
In an email, on a USB stick, in a backup, in a cloud folder left open, on a laptop left in a taxi. It stays encrypted in each of them.
The people you named, through the ways you chose, under the rules you set. Others hold scrambled data.
Said plainly, so the rest can be trusted.