Developer(s) Svante Seleborg Operating system | Initial release 2001 Type Encryption software | |
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Stable release 2.1.1398.0 / June 1, 2016; 8 months ago (2016-06-01) Available in English, French, Swedish, Spanish | ||
AxCrypt is a free and open-source encryption app for Microsoft Windows, developed in Sweden by Svante Seleborg for AxCrypt AB. It can compress, delete, encrypt and edit files.
Features
AxCrypt can encrypt a file or a folder by using either a key file or a password. AxCrypt can also secure files on the file sharing services such as DropBox or Google Drive. AxCrypt is using AES-128 and AES-256 encryption standard.
Users need to sign up for a user account in order to use AxCrypt. Users may log in by entering the password to encrypt files or folders. As long the user is logged in, he or she can open secured files and folders. The key file is actually a plain text document containing a code to open the file. An existing file can also be used to encrypt a file or a folder.
AxCrypt allows secured files to be opened by other AxCrypt users with their own password. AxCrypt can also delete data safely: the tool scrambles the data and then deletes them. The purpose of this feature is to prevent a malicious user to retrieve data later.