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Ok… You do need to re-boot often after installing. It should tell you this, but many just close it and ignore it. Did you reboot after the first install?
Hello Christian,
You can deploy AxCrypt using group policy in various ways, either by way of the setup.exe, or by extracting the .msi setup packages that are contained in it.
However, once installed, AxCrypt will ask for the email to use and then the user will go through the registration process with confirming the email and setting the password to use.
We will soon start development of business related features, and in this situation an administrator can invite users and also waive the need to confirm the email. The user will still have to type in the correct email address and set the password though.
We are very interested in developing as streamlined procedures as possible. Can you perhaps describe your scenario, and how you’d like it to work and we can discuss it perhaps arriving at a good solution for all?
Hello Dwight,
Thanks for your input!
Files encrypted with v2 are not possible to open with v1. Files opened with v2 with the auto-convert option enabled (default) will be in v2 format. However, the easiest way if you insist on reverting to the unsupported v1, is to uninstall v2, install v1 and then download the standalone v2 which will enable you to decrypt v2-encrypted files as you need to in order to re-encrypt them with v1.
I’ve been a developer for almost 40 years, and I love to debate the pros and cons of all things, because things change! AxCrypt did not evolve at all for 15+ years. The world did though, and now it’s way past time to get things up to date again, which includes new views on passwords and local vs. remote storage (aka cloud).
Here’s my input to the single vs. multiple password debate: http://www.axcrypt.net/blog/use-of-different-passwords/ .
Hello Kent,
The key sharing function embeds the shared key into the file. The file must thus first be key shared with the recipient, then sent or file shared. Please note that AxCrypt does not share or send the actual file. To see a quick instructional video explaining how to use key sharing, please view https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z3KOZD-Yks .
I don’t think HiDrive is supported fully on the iPhone. It appears it can only be used via their own app.
But this is my work computer which is subject to centrally administered group policies over which I have no control, maybe something in those is interfering?
Yepp, that would do it. Changing the shells settings is a privileged operation that may well be overridden by policy. You might want to just use the stand-alone version. You can still doube-click in the recent files list there, and do all operations from the main window and as long as you’re allowed to execute programs (which you obviously) are, it won’t be interfered with by such policies.
Hello Lar,
Do check the lower left corner of your screen shot – you should probably change those now…
Anyway – you don’t have AxCrypt 2 installed. For some reason also you have associated .axx with ‘AxDecrypt.exe’ (which is an old software part of the AxCrypt 1 distribution). This cannot happen automatically, but is rather something you’ve done – probably inadvertently, but still.
Download the setup installer from the download section of https://forum.axcrypt.net/ and install it (double-click it after downloading, and follow the instructions).
Hello Lar,
Screen shot please?
Hello John,
Are you using something else than Windows Explorer as your shell?
Hello Susan,
Right now, AxCrypt will re-create the “My AxCrypt” folder if you delete it. Just ignore it for now if you don’t want it, just like many ignore “My Documents” in Windows, which you can’t really get rid of either ;-)
If you let AxCrypt create it, then let Onedrive sync it between the devices there should be no further trouble. Onedrive is notoriously stupid about synchronization across multiple devices with folders.
Hello Troy,
We don’t support version 1 anymore I’m afraid… That being said, I’d try to copy the file to the hard drive from the CD and then open it and see if it works better.
Hello Peter,
That doesn’t sound right… Most likely it was a secured folder that was removed as secured, or selected to be decrypted. You say you and someone else. Is it on a network share, shared by many?
Hello Peter,
:-)
Hello,
Re PGP, check out the PGPi (I think it was called) version. During a period, they exported it on paper and then scanned it in europe, because exporting a book was ok even if printed in only one copy but exporting encryption code was not ;-). This was not a weakened version, but I really don’t remember exactly what years this was.
If you’re interested to hire someone to build something, send me a PM. I don’t think I have any media left from that time, but it appears it might be possible run Windows 3.x in Virtualbox or VMWare. It ought to be possible to get hold of a Turbo C copy somehow also.
Hello Bailey!
Now that’s an interesting question… I’m sorry, but I think Windows 95 is the earliest version we ever supported. I’m just guessing, but I’d think you could find some old PGP version that might run on 3.11 and it might support 3-DES. Possibly also some early ports of unix crypt, although that might only support DES, not 3-DES (not sure).
Considering the alternatives, and assuming that you might get away with a simple command line utility, I’d try to setup a development environment for 3.11 and get some old C sources for crypt for example from minix or some early linux distro, and maybe swap the algorithm for AES – there are reference implementations in pure C that should compile. Turbo C was pretty good back in the day ;-)
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