![]() I do think that disallowing passwords such as ‘password’, ‘secret’, ‘123’ and ‘a’ is an indisputably good design decision. There are several design decisions involved here, not 100% sure which one(s) are the critical ones here. I appreciate the feedback, and we do try to adapt as best we can. I think it is soo much better! But then I would, I guess, be a bit partial seeing as I am the lead developer of both the old and the new AxCrypt. Each file thus encrypted will be openeable by your own secret password, and all the recipients separate own passwords – no need to keep track of different passwords, no need to communciate and/or agree on passwords. Then, you select your recipients, identified by their email addresses to share with and add them as recipients. This then becomes the default password for encryption (and a little more, it verifies that you actually are using the right password, and not a typo). Also, each file thus encrypted will require you to know a separate password. If you communicate with several parties, it soon becomes unmanageable. With the old AxCrypt 1.x, in order to complete the sharing, you’ll have to agree upon and communicate that password. Well, provided that you do in fact care about the security of the file being sent, you must enter a password sometime. Sorry, but you meaning was not entirely clear about what was ridiculous -)īut the thing is – you then say “… just in order to encrypt a file that I want to email to someone…”. However – we don’t test it, we don’t verify it, we don’t maintain it and we don’t support it. On another pont I’ll disagree with Harry – has far as I know AxCrypt 1 does work with Windows 10, the latest version of Windows. The point with requiring at least a reasonably strong password with AxCrypt 2 is just that – to make it very clear that a strong password is required for the software to have any effect! It might make you feel safe, but you’re not. There’s no point in using encryption software with a weak, easy-to-guess password. I must agree with Harry on one point, when you say that it’s a problem that you “ must remember this complicated password you force the user to create” that you should reconsider your use of encryption. (Direct links to the download page *will* redirect to the new version 2 download page.) To download the old, version 1, go to, click on the logo top left to enter the site and then to the download page. If I can have these “old” feature, I do not mind paying the new annual fee. have the possibility to have several password on the same computer) Is there a possibility either to download the old version (to be installed on my new computer) or to make the new one work same as the old one (i.e. (a simple and a very complicated one for the very confidential file) With the old version we can have several password which can be different. I understand that with the new version we have to use allways the same password, which is known by Axcrypt organisation. When I open a file encrypted with the old axcrypt, the system ask me to change the codification and to encrypte it with the password given at the begining ( and not to keep the original one if it is different.) As I need to install it again on another computer, I realize that the new version ask for the password when we start the application, and it oblige us to use this same password for all the file. It is able to encrypt files that are more than 4 Gb, except for those who are self-extracting.ĪxCrypt also includes many other features such as administration from the command line or the compression before encryption.I am using AXcrypt since a long time, and I was happy about it. For editing an encrypted file, simply double-click it. It is imperative that the password to open a file, otherwise it is impossible. ![]() Encryption is done with a 128-bit key, which makes it impossible for hackers. Similarly, temporary files are permanently deleted from the hard drive without a recovery is possible later. ![]() If there are changes made to the file, it is automatically encrypted again. When it is needed to consult a document, the authentication key is required. Using the application is very simple since it is directly accessible from the context menu in Windows Explorer by just selecting a folder or file, and then entering a custom encryption key. AxCrypt is a tool that covers the need of security by encrypting any document desired.ĪxCrypt is a software utility specially designed for data encryption.
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