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AES Crypt 4.1 Released
by Paul E. Jones 29 Nov '24

29 Nov '24

Folks, Last week, AES Crypt 4.1 was released for all supported platforms. This is a point released that addresses a number of non-critical bugs and improvements addressed since the release of the major 4.0 release at the end of August. For those who might have missed it during the middle of the minor incremental release cycle, we also re-introduced support for Mac Intel-based platforms. That support was initially dropped with the major 4.0 release as we (incorrectly) assumed most people had migrated to the newer M-series processors. Now, both M-series (Apple Silicon / Arm) and Intel processors are supported. We will continue to support both until demand diminishes substantially. Cheers! Paul

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AES Crypt 4 for Intel-based Mac
by Paul E. Jones 08 Nov '24

08 Nov '24

Folks, AES Crypt for Mac was updated so that it will operate on both Intel and ARM-based Macs. When AES Crypt 4 was released, the initial version was built only for Arm processors, but there was quite a bit of demand for Intel, too. The GUI version will run on either processor. The command-line version is built specifically for either ARM or Intel, so if you want to use the command-line version, be sure to download the appropriate version. Paul

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AES Crypt Update
by Paul E. Jones 16 Oct '24

16 Oct '24

Folks, It has been a little over a month since AES Crypt 4 was released. The feedback was very positive, though there were a few issues observed. We have been making incremental updates over the past month to resolve various issues. Most significantly was a crashing issue on certain Windows machines. After spending a couple of weeks trying to isolate the issue (because it did not happen on any of our systems), we were able to narrow down the problem to a particular line of code. Curious why, we discovered that Microsoft made a change to their runtime libraries that broke backward compatibility. That was a rather stunning discovery, and to resolve it the choice was either to force everyone to upgrade their Microsoft Runtime libraries to the latest release or to implement a workaround as proposed by one of the Microsoft engineers. We opted for the latter, as we want the software to "just work." If you are curious about the details, you can find a post about it here: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Access-violation-in-_Thrd_yie… Anyway, that change was implemented in release the GUI version numbers 4.0.6, so if anyone was experiencing a crashing issue, that should now be resolved. Cheers! Paul

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AES Crypt 4 Released
by Paul E. Jones 31 Aug '24

31 Aug '24

AES Crypt Enthusiasts, We are excited to announce the release of AES Crypt 4 , the fourth major version of our popular encryption software. AES Crypt 4 is available as a GUI and command-line application for Windows, Linux, and Mac, with both binaries and source code published. Key Updates: Enhanced Security: The key derivation function now uses FIPS-recommended HMAC-SHA-512 with 300,000 iterations, configurable via the command-line tool. We’ve also switched to PKCS#7 padding. Performance Boost: Intel Intrinsics functions improve performance by approximately 30% on Intel processors. Apple Silicon Support: The Mac version is now compiled for Apple Silicon. Safety Measures: Mac and Linux versions now refuse to overwrite existing files, aligning with the Windows version. Command-Line Enhancements: More options, integrated key generation, and a progress meter for long files. Code Overhaul: Rewritten in C++20 with daily unit tests and improved integration tests for enhanced code safety. Backward Compatibility: AES Crypt 4 remains fully compatible with all previous versions, ensuring access to encrypted files created by older versions. All packages are available on https://www.aescrypt.com. Cheer! Paul

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Test mailing list
by Larry Leung 13 Feb '24

13 Feb '24

please ignore this testing message, just want to test whether this mailing is still working,

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Re: [aescrypt] AESCrypt not working on mac
by Paul E. Jones 17 Nov '19

17 Nov '19

Folks, Anyone else experience this issue? Maybe someone can volunteer to build a new package? Not sure what's broken, but perhaps we'll need to keep both the current and a new package to fit whatever OS version people are using. Shame we might have to do that yet again. Paul -------- Original Message -------- From: Jonell Smith <jonell_10(a)hotmail.com> Sent: November 17, 2019 9:56:01 AM EST To: "support(a)packetizer.com" <support(a)packetizer.com> Subject: AESCrypt not working on mac Hello, My AESCrypt isn't working since I've updated my mac. I get the error message "The developer of this app needs to update it to work with this version of macOS. Contact the developer for more information." when I try to open it. Any help would be much appreciated. Many thanks, Jonell

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aescryot shredder app
by Arturo Acosta 20 Aug '18

20 Aug '18

Hello im very happy with aes crypt aplication and software i use on mobile and pc but a wish if you make a shredder app or software that would be very cool

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Feature request: yad support
by Vlad Glagolev 07 Sep '17

07 Sep '17

Hi everyone, it'd be a great thing to have YAD[0] support for aescrypt in addition to zenity. Yad (yet another dialog) is a fork of Zenity with many improvements, such as custom buttons, additional dialogs, pop-up menu in notification icon and more. Thanks! [0] https://sourceforge.net/projects/yad-dialog/ -- Vlad Glagolev <stealth(a)tiberian.ru>

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AESCrypt operational vulnerability iOS
by jerry quigg 12 Aug '17

12 Aug '17

iOS devices: For security, the default for AEScrypt pro APP should be that decrypted files are purged on APP closing; unless a switch is positively selected to preserve them. Can this feature be added - Because: It is a troubling vulnerability to not delete decrypted files from the APP when it is closed. Anyone with access to the iOS device potentially can reopen the APP and see unprotected files. Requiring or depending on the user to positively delete unencrypted files from the APP as the default action, operationally is hostile to security. -- VBR, Jerry

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AES Crypt for Linux 3.11 Released
by Paul E. Jones 24 Oct '16

24 Oct '16

Folks, I published version 3.11 of the Linux versions of AES Crypt. There are no new features, but just bug fixes for both the GUI and the command-line interface. For the GUI, there were issues when spaces existed in the pathname. The command-line version did not properly work with non-ASCII passwords on some platforms. As always, the new versions are available from https://www.aescrypt.com/download/. Paul

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