You decide to do some online surveys (Jennifer is hugely into Swag Bucks) and then update your Daily Journal, unfortunately you contract a drive-by keylogger *GASP* and it records your login to AxCrypt. Her Daily Journal however isn’t really that big a deal to her, she values keeping it private but nowhere NEAR as much as she does her Sexy photos! Maybe Jennifer uses my current setup with Shadow Defender and restarts prior to accessing her most private files.Īxantum – in contrast – has determined that all of your encrypted files are of equal value, there is no need to protect them differently. Jennifer is very careful, she accesses her Sexy photos via sandboxed programs which can’t connect to the internet to prevent leaks, for some files she even scans her computer and disconnects her internet. We’ll imagine that Jennifer – like myself – LOVES encryption, she uses it on anything and everything that deserves any amount of privacy. Smexy photos) and some files she’s less concerned about say a daily journal. Let’s say that our end-user is Jennifer, she has some files she wants to keep very secure (i.e. So first of all this is patently false, it’s an asinine assumption, and it’s wrong in just about every way. The second, using different passwords for yourself, is a little counterintuitive perhaps but the truth is – there is no need, and no benefit. The thought process is “Users are stupid, we have to protect them from themselves”.Įvidence of this thinking can be found by walking through Axantum’s statement found here: – If a user can pick multiple passwords they will pick multiple weaker ones.Īxantum will thus treat you as a child and control the way you secure your files, much the same way Microsoft enforces updates on users – regardless of the negative outcomes. – If a user picks a password they will pick a weak one. I agree with you Ben, I was actually just about to write up a long winded post on this very topic.Īxantum seems to have taken the stance that the greatest threat to security is the user i.e.: What’s there to stopping you from reinstalling it, apart from the bug in Notepad++ you talk about? Both versions of AxCrypt were/are free and provided as-is. Log off and the password is wiped from memory. Leave AxCrypt 2 running in the background whilst you’re logged on and you don’t need to enter a password each time. If you need to work with multiple files like I do then being able to double click on a file and not have to type in a long password each time ( and in AxCrypt 1.7 you had to remember to encrypt it again) then the new model makes much more sense. Signing in means the decryption key is stored in AxCrypt’s local memory. Why would I want to have to sign in to encrypt or decrypt a file? ![]() ![]() This is why I use AxCrypt in “Always Offline” mode because it never connects to the internet. Why would I want to give Axantum the password to all of my encrypted files (yes, I know that you claim not to store the passwords I even believe you, but still…) Their official statement on that is here: Use of different passwords considered harmful Why would I only want to be able to use one password to encrypt files?
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