AxCrypt 1.6.4.4

4.7 out of 5 stars 4.7 (56 votes)

(May 19, 2008)

Windows (All) / Open Source / 4,735 downloads

AxCrypt is a file encryption program that uses the AES algorithm with 128-bit keys. It combines strong symmetric encryption with compression and double-click editing. Encrypted files have a ".axx" extension added to their names, and are shown with a new icon.

Reviews of AxCrypt

  1. 5 out of 5 stars
    Landsnes

    Reviewing 1.6.4.4 (Jun 15, 2008)

    Excellent!

    The features of this program are more than sufficient for my needs. Combined with TrueCrypt there's little more to ask for.

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    MickyFoley

    Reviewing 1.6.4.4 (May 19, 2008)

    1.6.4.4 2008-05-13
    Release of 1.6b4.3.

    1.6b4.3 2008-04-27
    Bug fixes, see change notes.

    1.6b4.2 2008-04-10
    Windows Vista has introduced a brilliant new feature in the name of
    security (sic!) which causes the address space of processes to be
    randomly assigned. This caused a latent bug to surface, causing
    random crashes and taskbar freezes. Another latent bug caused Vista
    to silently kill the process instead of showing it's exception
    dialog. In the end a rather major edit with lots of cleanup as a
    result.

    1.6.4.1 2008-03-17
    Fixed a major issue with not using provided passphrase when encrypting
    in batch files via the command line.

    1.6.4 2008-03-07
    Final release of the changes in 1.6b3.1 through 1.6b.3.3 plus a few
    minor changes.

    1.6b3.3 2008-02-07
    Include AxCrypt2Go beta in the distribution. Enable use of Unicode
    filenames (legacy versions will use translated name).

    1.6b3.2 2008-01-29
    Further changes to make it more Vista-aware. The largest change is
    re-compilation as a full Unicode application and dropping support for
    Windows 95, 98, ME and NT. We're no open for translations to more
    languages, as we're not limited in the texts. Filenames are still
    stored in Ansi only, will be fixed in next version.

    1.6b3.1 2008-01-08
    Minor bugfixes, but major upgrade of library code and development-
    environment to Visual Studio 2005. Vista support in installer and code.
    Fix of problem with networked folders in Windows XP after Microsoft
    security update.

  3. 4 out of 5 stars
    rhoadesb

    Reviewing 1.6.4.1 (Apr 29, 2008)

    I am currently using version 1.6.3 so this speaks about that.

    I have been using Axcrypt for single file encryption several years now, always with good results.

    Something I don't see in the homepage of Axcrypt is a version changes list. It appears that all of the features listed in 1.6.4 I already have in 1.6.3.

    Perhaps the release is correcting bugs, although I have never encountered any.

  4. 5 out of 5 stars
    uberfly

    Reviewing 1.6.4.1 (Mar 18, 2008)

    Very solid and reliable. It easily covers the basics of file encryption without all the overhead like you get from PGP these days.

  5. 5 out of 5 stars
    MickyFoley

    Reviewing 1.6.4.1 (Mar 18, 2008)

    1.6.4.1 2008-03-17
    Fixed a major issue with not using provided passphrase when encrypting
    in batch files via the command line.

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