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Ok, Mr. Verhallen, I understand.
In the case of AxCrypt 2, the technical details are a little complicated, but essentially we’re using a “Sign In” metaphor for the operation that might be labelled: “Please enter the password to use for decryption and encryption during this session. We’ll use cryptographically strong mechanisms to also verify that this is indeed the same password that you used the last time you set or changed the password, in order to avoid mistakes“.
The point being, that with AxCrypt 1 we had quite a few support issues where users would enter the password, twice, and mistype it both times. The next time, they did not, and thus could not open their documents. That was bad. We want to minimize the risk of that even further.
Also, by making you enter it just once at the start, the subsequent operations are very easy. No need to enter it each time you want to encrypt or decrypt.
We get more questions about the fact that you *only* have to enter the password once… See http://www.axcrypt.net/blog/leaving-computer-axcrypt/ .
PS
The GPL licensing has no bearing on sign in requirements or not. It’s a license I am granting “you”, it does not restrict what I can do or how the software behaves. No part of the code is licensed to us under GPL, it’s either written by us, in the public domain, or licensed under less restrictive licenses (Bouncy Castle and Json.NET are both licensed under variations of the MIT license, and as such are deemed compatible but less restrictive).
June 29, 2016 at 15:10 in reply to: Light Bulb icon on AxCrypt Window always shows "No Need to Check for Updates" #3634Thank you Laurel,
It’s input from users as yourself that will ensure that AxCrypt 2 really will shine and succeed in the long run.
Please report if you find that the light bulb does not light up as expected!
Svante
Mr. Verhallen,
Can you please attach a screen shot of the screen where you get stuck?
There is no requirement to register every time AxCrypt is used. You do need to “sign in”, i.e. enter your password.
June 29, 2016 at 08:22 in reply to: Light Bulb icon on AxCrypt Window always shows "No Need to Check for Updates" #3631Hello Laurel,
It is indeed intended to warn about such situations, an update being available being one of them.
However, it’s also made so that it does not do the update check too frequently, so it may take up to 24 hours after a new release until the icon changes color.
Is your green despite an update being available for longer than 24 hours, and you’ve had Internet?
Svante
Andrew,
No problem! Good luck.
Hello Dave,
If the file is encrypted, it’s encrypted and requires a password. You enter the password when you sign in to AxCrypt, and it stays signed in until you sign out, or it signs out automatically.
See http://www.axcrypt.net/blog/leaving-computer-axcrypt/ for a discussion around this.
John,
Yes, I agree that if you need it for 10 persons it is more significant, although I do mean €2 at yearly rates. €24/year + VAT (not sure if you are VAT registred or not).
On the other hand, stay tuned, we have already discussed gratis Premium for registred charities, possibly eductional institutions etc. Right now, the problem is we don’t have any way to manage such things. It will likely be a part of the functionality of our upcoming business volume discount management, so then we may well decide to offer it for free to charities etc.
The password protection of Word and Excel is useful, but less strong than the Free version of AxCrypt. Still, it may well be sufficient for your needs, and for those documents it’s probably in many ways easier to use. I would not store for example medical information or other persons financial situation in a password protected Word-document, but certainly things of lesser importance.
Andrew,
First – please don’t ‘hijack’ threads with one subject, with a post on another subject. Just start a new thread instead!
Anyway, the problem with ‘Save As’ and AxCrypt is that a file opened by AxCrypt is temporarily decrypted to a temporary location under %localappdata%\AxCrypt . That’s where the default ‘Save As’ location is.
While I do believe we can set the working directory to the original location, I’m not sure all applications will honor it. We’ll investigate and see how it works though. Follow the issue here: https://bitbucket.org/axantum/axcrypt-net/issues/139/set-working-directory-to-original .
Herman,
AxCrypt 1 had “remember this passphrase for decryption” as an option, while AxCrypt 2 always does this via the sign in mechanism.
What this means is that it’s working as designed. Once you are signed in, documents and files should open without asking for a password, until signed out. You can sign out from the menu, and you’ll also be signed out automatically when the computer goes to sleep or the screen saver goes active.
John,
What can I say? We need to pay the rent too, as you say, that’s life! Sorry, but we do need the revenue! Still, €2/month is not really that significant a cost, is it? That’s what we hope most people will feel anyway, compared to the benefits.
Good luck!
Hello Marty!
Small misunderstanding here maybe. AxCrypt uses your e-mail address as the name of your AxCrypt ID account, just like many, many services. This does not mean that you should actually sign in with your hotmail password though.
If you are in the process of setting a new password for your AxCrypt ID, it may be that our requirements are stricter than hotmail. Please hover your mouse over the error indicator to see the actual message.
If you are still having problems, please send a screen shot to: support at axcrypt dot net .
The idea is that to *share* a file key with someone requires Premium. To be shared with does not, and updating the file will work for the sharee as well. To *share* a new file, or add/remove a sharee, requires Premium.
June 23, 2016 at 08:02 in reply to: Option for enabling passcode when decrypting files w/ Axcrypt 2.x #3603Hello Keith,
I wrote a little longer text on this subject on our blog: http://www.axcrypt.net/blog/leaving-computer-axcrypt/ .
The short and long of it is that requiring password entry each time is not likely to increase the net security, on the contrary especially if it leads you to think that it’s safe to leave your computer physically accessible for anyone to use without requiring a Windows password.
Hello A,
No worries. Of course we won’t lock you out of your data because the Premium trial expires. The Free version will still decrypt and open AES-256-encrypted files, it just won’t encrypt with AES-256 but AES-128 instead.
Svante
Hi Sputnik,
I should have been clearer. When I wrote “…you think/want…” I did not mean you Sputnik, I meant someone else, any/many/all AxCrypt users. What you called “they”. So, we are saying the same thing here.
The shared password feature would be free. Needs some thought, but it could be a good idea actually.
Thanks!
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