[SvanteSpectator]

Hello Robert,

Sorry, but you meaning was not entirely clear about what was ridiculous ;-)

But the thing is – you then say “…just in order to encrypt a file that I want to email to someone…”. Well, provided that you do in fact care about the security of the file being sent, you must enter a password sometime.

With the old AxCrypt 1.x, in order to complete the sharing, you’ll have to agree upon and communicate that password. If you communicate with several parties, it soon becomes unmanageable. Also, each file thus encrypted will require you to know a separate password.

With AxCrypt 2.x, you “sign in” first. 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).

Then, you select your recipients, identified by their email addresses to share with and add them as recipients. 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. One password to rule them all!

Yes, it’s different. 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.

 

[SvanteSpectator]

Hello Yvonne,

Please contact our support, but generally speaking – if you misremembered your password you can’t decrypt.

Also, you should *never* give your password to anything to anyone. I edited your post to remove it, but the damage is essentially already done. You should consider all your files as potentially compromised.

[SvanteSpectator]

Hello Robert,

Thank you for your input!

To download the old, version 1, go to http://www.axantum.com/, click on the logo top left to enter the site and then to the download page. (Direct links to the download page *will* redirect to the new version 2 download page.)

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.

There’s no point in using encryption software with a weak, easy-to-guess password. It might make you feel safe, but you’re not. 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!

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. However – we don’t test it, we don’t verify it, we don’t maintain it and we don’t support it.

[SvanteSpectator]

Hello Ryan,

Thank you for the feedback. We’ll investigate immediately and release a patch version asap. See https://bitbucket.org/axantum/axcrypt-net/issues/419/rename-to-original-causes .

[SvanteSpectator]

Hello Ryan,

No, we havn’t sorry! I’ve increased the priority and assigned so it should get fixed for the next release. See https://bitbucket.org/axantum/axcrypt-net/issues/177/let-deleted-my-axcrypt-folders-stay for progress.

[SvanteSpectator]

Ok, so the “network drive” has been added to the Secured Folders list, right?

[SvanteSpectator]

Hello Huseyin,

I am very sorry to hear that you apparently are the victim of a hacker ransom attack against your files.

However, please understand that AxCrypt is just a tool that is used by millions of legitimate users for good purposes. I am very sad that a hacker has chosen AxCrypt as the tool to perform the ransom attacks.

Unfortunately in this case, AxCrypt is based on strong encryption, and it is generally not possible to crack the encryption.

What you must do is contact your local police, and have them follow the money and Internet trail to the hacker. Since others appear to be in the same situation, you may want to contact media in order to make this problem more widely known, and also gain the possibility of a group action of all the victims against the hacker.

We cannot help, we are in no way involved, and there is no way to open the files without the passphrase used.

Please read http://blog.axantum.com/2012/07/axcrypt-used-for-ransom-attacks.html for a longer discussion of what I know about this affair.

[SvanteSpectator]

Thank you! Now, for clarification, can you just explain during which operation this happens? There are apparently no watched folders (or did you clear them from the screenshot)?

We have opened an issue here https://bitbucket.org/axantum/axcrypt-net/issues/418/sequence-contains-no-elements-in .

[SvanteSpectator]

Hello mehmet,

I am very sorry to hear that you apparently are the victim of a hacker ransom attack against your files.

However, please understand that AxCrypt is just a tool that is used by millions of legitimate users for good purposes. I am very sad that a hacker has chosen AxCrypt as the tool to perform the ransom attacks.

Unfortunately in this case, AxCrypt is based on strong encryption, and it is generally not possible to crack the encryption.

What you must do is contact your local police, and have them follow the money and Internet trail to the hacker. Since others appear to be in the same situation, you may want to contact media in order to make this problem more widely known, and also gain the possibility of a group action of all the victims against the hacker.

We cannot help, we are in no way involved, and there is no way to open the files without the passphrase used.

Please read http://blog.axantum.com/2012/07/axcrypt-used-for-ransom-attacks.html for a longer discussion of what I know about this affair.

[SvanteSpectator]

Thank you, that helps!

Can you also add the part where we see the status line of the software, with the version and the status?

[SvanteSpectator]

Hello taco de wijs,

Could you send a screen shot of the respective situations please?

[SvanteSpectator]

Hello David,

Do you by any chance use the Secured Folders feature on the USB drive? That will keep the drive locked.

In the meantime we’ve created and assigned an issue for this. You can follow progress here: https://bitbucket.org/axantum/axcrypt-net/issues/417/axcrypt-locks-usb-drive .

Thank you for reporting this!

[SvanteSpectator]

Hello CUTR,

This is most likely caused by you requesting a password *reset* on June 4. You can’t reset the password to gain access to previously encrypted files, that’s not how encryption works.

The password reset function will let you sign in again to your account, using the new password. But, to open previously opened files, you need to know the original password.

That is why it’s asking for the “file” password, which here means the “password the file was encrypted with”.

[SvanteSpectator]

Hello john,

Thanks, but unfortunately that didn’t help at all. I was thinking if you had a “registry error”, you did something to fix it. But if you did get a message about an invalid signature, that either sounds like AxCrypt 1.x, or something completely different.

Anyway, happy it works for you.

[SvanteSpectator]

Hello Anonymous,

Yes, I am the lead developer. Really ;-) No, sorry, I won’t give you any more solid than that about this feature. Wish I could, but I’ve given up trying to predict the future since many years in the IT business with failed such predictions.

We’re not a large company, and we don’t have scheduled releases and our priorities keep shifting all the time since we try to be very flexible.

“We might”, “I don’t like adding options” etc reflect the fact that we also discuss these things internally, we let suggestions take a little while to settle before we rush off and implement, and also we have several definitely higher priority things to do first which in turn I can’t give any solid delivery dates on – so that’s why I’m responding as I am.

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