Forums Community Please allow changing the temporary directory used for decrypting files

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    Alden

    This is a request I made several years ago and I see that it continues to be ignored. I think it is a fairly simple modification to the application and would solve one of the most common security problems that the application presents: if while we are working with a file the system crashes (Windows crashes, the power goes out, etc.), the file remains decrypted in the system’s temporary folder, so that another user could later obtain it.

    To solve this problem it would be as simple as AxCrypt allowing to change the path that the application uses to store the decrypted files while an application is working with them. In this case, a path could be set as a temporary directory that points to a directory on a volume encrypted with VeraCrypt, so that if the system crashes the file is still stored there, in that encrypted VeraCrypt volume, and the user could recover it when he recovers the system; and on the other hand, no other user could access the temporary decrypted file that has been left on the disk since it is in the encrypted volume, so it cannot be accessed.

    As you can see, simply allowing the path where AxCryt decrypts temporary files to be changed could solve one of the major security problems that the application presents, and as I say, I think this is a simple change to implement in your application’s code.

    #41779 Reply

    Marvin

    Alden, glad to inform you that we have worked upon this request and you will soon get it in upcoming releases.

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