Forums Help & support How to make AxCrypt ask for the password every time?

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    Gcentral

    Hello! I have 4 queries, please.

    1) How to get AxCrypt to ask for my password every time I try to open an encrypted file. Currently, I am asked to key-in the password only for the first file I try to open and afterwards all files can be opened without the password.

    2) How do I change the password within AxCrypt if I don’t have an Internet connection?

    3) Is it possible to have two separate passwords – one for the AxCrypt website login and the other for encrypting or decrypting files on my PC?

    4) What will happen to my encrypted files if I store them away on a secure hard drive, then uninstall AxCrypt and don’t install it back for a couple of years? Will future versions of AxCrypt be backward compatible?

    I would highly appreciate if all my four queries are answered. Thank you :)

    #8726 Reply

    Svante
    Spectator

    Hello Gcentral,

    1) You can’t make AxCrypt ask every time, but you can set it to auto-sign-out with different intervals. The most often is after 5 minutes of inactivity.

    2) Right now you can’t change the password while offline, the whole idea is to use our web server infrastructure to ensure that a password change is synchronized across devices. It gets really complicated to keep track of the situation if let’s say you have 3 devices, and change the password on all three offline, to different passwords and also do it online for example. There’s no way we can handle a situation like that in a way a regular user will understand. It’ll just be too confusing.

    3) We don’t support different online and file passwords as such. Once again, it gets too complicated for the majority of  users, and for us to implement.

    4) AxCrypt 2.x is backwards compatible with files encrypted with AxCrypt beta 0.9  in the year 2000 and every version since then – we have every intention to keep AxCrypt 7.x or whatever backwards compatible in the same way. As an extra precaution, we also recommend that you download the AxCrypt stand-alone version and store it next to your archive copies. If nothing else, it probably simplifies for you when you need those files. That of course depends on Microsofts willingness to be backwards compatible – but they have a pretty good track record there too. AxCrypt 0.9 mentioned above I’m pretty sure will run on Windows 10 (I have not tried, but I see no reason why it wouldn’t work).

    #8727 Reply

    Gcentral

    Thank you, Sir. Appreciate the quick response. I like AxCrypt more now.

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