Sure, PGP does it too – but for IT experts. That’s why we introduced the simple file sharing feature. AxCrypt is at it’s best when sharing files outside of your computer. I do agree that full disk encryption is often a good complement for local file security. Instead of a limited problematic self-decrypting exe, we now have a fully featured standalone portable software (that you can send along to your recipients if they in fact can and want to accept executable files). There are just so many things wrong with the self-decryptable executable though. It seems you treat “self-decryptable files” as the alternative to “ people with whom I share files to download AxCrypt“. Thank you for your feedback! Sorry you’re disappointed of course. You can also create an encrypted self-extractable file. 7-Zip also has the added option of compressing the archive as well. People wanting to replicate the functionality of version 1.7 would be well advised to use 7-Zip as it’s free, open-source, peer reviewed and offers AES-256. Unless AxCrypt continue to support 1.7 I will regrettably discontinue using your software. There are far better, peer-reviewed alternatives to your new concept (e.g. No matter what I shan’t be using version 2 as I dislike the concept. You could then offer a ‘Classic Interface’ option (with all of the original functionality) or maintain the two pieces of software independently of one another. If money is a concern to the people behind AxCrypt then I suggest that you re-build the capabilities of 1.7 into 2.0 and charge a registration fee (either one-off or recurring). I therefore reject the argument that removing the ability to have file-specific passwords makes it more secure because this simply isn’t the use case here. Most people who use AxCrypt will have full disk encryption and will therefore rely upon AxCrypt not to protect their own files (where multiple passwords may be an issue, especially if insecure) but to share files with others. The development team suggest this is insecure but changing from a symmetric to asymmetric scheme brings about it confusion, extra steps for the user and inconvenience. I also dislike that you can’t have individual passwords. I cannot reasonably expect the people with whom I share files to download AxCrypt in order to be able to decrypt the files. I fully appreciate the concept behind version 2 but my primary use of the old version was to share files. As a long-time user of AxCrypt 1.7 I decided to try out version 2.0 and I couldn’t be more dissatisfied.
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