May 18th, 2012· Added ability to copy/move AND encrypt file in single action by dragging the file by right mouse button from one location to another
May 18th, 2012· Several improvements in the uninstallation process.
April 10th, 2012· Improved some visual parts of the application (Nag screen and etc).
March 29th, 2012· Fixed bug: sfx module crashed when decrypting it from the command line using the line
January 10th, 2012· Several minor improvements in the "Text Encryption Tool"
December 28th, 2011· Several minor improvements in the application interface and product documentation.
November 29th, 2011· Fixed bug. The application damaged passwords.xml file on usb flash drive when setting very long master password (>35 characters)
November 29th, 2011· AEP 2011 PRO has been renamed to AEP 2012 PRO.
· "About" Window: added possibility to prolong the subscription to free upgrades and buy a license.
· Several minor bug fixes.
November 29th, 2011· SFX Module: changed main icon. Some other minor interface improvements.
August 25th, 2011· SFX Module: no more error message "Cannot read parameters from sfx file" when the option "delete this .exe file after decryption" is set.
July 29th, 2011· Significantly improved Clipboard / Text Encryption Assistant. Now it looke like Windows 7 Print Picture Wizard.
June 14th, 2011· Sfx Module: added ability to cancel decryption process by pressing close [x] button.
May 16th, 2011· Added ability to decrypt sfx module from the command line prompt using the 'document.doc.exe decrypt "password"' command.
· Fixed several minor bugs in the sfx module.
May 16th, 2011· Added ability to decrypt sfx module from the command line prompt using the 'document.doc.exe decrypt "password"' command.
· Fixed several minor bugs in the sfx module.
May 3rd, 2011· Fixed bug in crypto.dll (program crash on start).
April 27th, 2011· Dramatically improved SFX module. Now it has interface of aero wizard.
· SFX module now has additional option: "Open document after decryption".
March 27th, 2011· Sfx module. The flag "delete this sfx file after decryption" now works fine when
· the module is located in the directory with white spaces in the name.
February 17th, 2011· When encrypting/decryptin files AEP displays overall progress in the Windows 7 Task Bar.
February 17th, 2011· AEP PRO has been renamed to 2011 version.
· Now AEP reencrypts double-clicked encrypted file automatically if the file has been changed in the associated application.
· Improved design of "About program" window.
· Some other minor improvements.
December 23rd, 2010· Fixed bug: AEP main window size is descended on several pixels on every
· program start.
· Improved design and behaviour of the program nag screen.
December 3rd, 2010· The directory in the tree is now explanded/collapsed on double click. AEP does not try to calculate full directory size in this case as before.
· Wiping files: progress window displays more information now (elapsed time, bytes processed, etc).
· Progress window: now AEP handles situation correctly when the pause button was clicked and then the cancel button was clicked.
· Wiping files: when pressing cancel button in the progress window, the message window "Would you like to cancel" is always displayed in the foreground on the top of other windows.
November 13th, 2010· Improved visual style of the files tree. Now it has win7 explorer's tree style
October 31st, 2010· Fixed bug in live update module causing attempt to downoad instalation
· package of new version on press ESC key even when there is no such
· new version at all.
· Fixed several minor bugs in the installation package.
October 14th, 2010· Several minor improvements in the installation package.
· Fixed bug in sfx module. It didn't work properly in some rare cases (crashed).
September 25th, 2010· Several minor improvements in the Live Update feature.
September 12th, 2010· Bug fixed: it is not possible to set output folder for processed files. The folder path is not saved.
August 29th, 2010· Bug fixed: When decrypting file from windows explorer with very very long password, AEP shown the error message "password is too long for "desx algorithm".
· When encrypting file from windows explorer and with PKI encryption.
· Now the key file path text file is read only and the repeat password text field is hidden (not disabled as previously).
August 16th, 2010· When encrypting files from context menu of Windows Explorer, the progress window was overlapped by another windows sometime. This bug has been fixed.
August 2nd, 2010Some minor changes in the program interface:
· 3 radio buttons for "destiny of source files"
· have been replaced to 2 checkboxes "Delete files
· after encryption" and "Securely Delete".
· Some minor changes in the USB Key List window.
· Some controls are now disabled when noone usb pendrive is connected to the usb port.
· Some minor enhancements in the msi installation package
July 17th, 2010· The message "Do you really want to wipe all selected files?" is not overlapped by other windows anymore on Windows 7/Vista when shredding files from windows explorer's context menu.
June 5th, 2010· Explorer Context menu -> "Secure Delete" now displays the window with the log even when it is disabled in the program options, but when errors occured during secure delete operation.
· Confirmation windows (like "do you really want to delete all files?") have own button on the taskbar when files are encrypted/decrypted from explorer context menu.
· Log Window has own button on the taskbar when files are encrypted / decrypted from explorer context menu.
· The Progress Window has own button on the taskbar when files are encrypted / decrypted from explorer context menu.
· The "Checking New Version" window displays correct number of new features and bug fixes now.
May 15th, 2010· AEPCMD: Added new command line switch -SHOWFULLPATH (-SFP) to disable the truncation of the displayed file path to 50 characters.
April 24th, 2010· The message "The file has been changed. Would you like to reencrypt it?"
· is shown always on the top of other windows under Windows 7 now.
April 22nd, 2010· Improved integration of AEP's shell context menu with Windows Explorer
· under Windows 7 64-bit. Previous versions of AEP contained bug causing
· problems when calling some system commands like: Computer->Manage, Run As... Now all works fine.
· Shell context menu item AEP->Help now works fine.
April 4th, 2010· Redesigned the Decryption Password Window for decrypt & edit operation.
· It is shown when user double clicks the encrypted file in Windows Explorer.
· This window has no "What to do with source files" option anymore.
· decrypt/edit/reencrypt operation (in single mouse click). Now it automatically
· deletes decrypted file, when it was firstly decrypted, then opened in the associated application, but not changed.
March 13th, 2010· AEP PRO received logo "Compatilbe with Windows 7" from Microsoft. The logo verifies that AEP PRO passed thorough quality testing given by Microsoft-authorized technical experts and was found to meet all requirements of compatibility with Windows 7 and Windows 7-certified hardware.
· Menu item "Help/Check for newer version" was renamed to "Auto Update...".
· Now, the AutoUpdate feature checks for newer version just once a day, not at every program launch.
· By default, the AutoUpdate feature is disabled. It is required to set the autoupdate checkbox to enable it.
February 20th, 2010· Since this version AEP can upgrade itself to newer version from website. When new version is available, the new button
· "Upgrade to v.xx.xx.xx" is appeared in the "New version detected" window.
January 30th, 2010· "Get File Size" function now provides more statistics about selected files/folders.
January 11th, 2010· "Get File Size" function (Ctrl-Space hot key) displays additional
statistics about file types in the selected folder(s). For example:
· "345 JPG (34%), 300 TXT (29%).."
· The speed of enumerating files in the selected folders was increased in
· 40-50 times! For example function "Get File Size" works in 50 times faster
· in large directories like c:windows
· "Get file size" function. Incorrect summary size was displayed for selected folders when the size was several GBs.
· Progress Window: Incorrect summary size was displayed when it was
· severag GBs
· Some other minor fixes of such kind
December 20th, 2009· Removed green image from the start button. Now this button shows current operation's status: "Encrypt Now", "Decrypt Now", "Encrypt by PKI", "Securely Delete" and etc.
· Check for new version - bug fixed: now it does not show "new version was detected" window for the latest version on the webserver when the installed version is the same.
November 28th, 2009· Removed green image from the start button. Now this button shows
· current operation's status: "Encrypt Now", "Decrypt Now", "Encrypt by PKI", "Securely Delete" and etc.
· Check for new version - bug fixed: now it does not show "new version was detected" window for the latest version on the webserver when the installed version is the same.
November 7th, 2009· Now program checks for the newer version(s) automatically on every program start.
· The Window "check for newer version" now contains the checkbox "Automatically check for newer version on every program start"
· The current version is displayed on the top of other information in the "Check for Newer version" window.
October 17th, 2009· Bug fixed: "About/Check for New version..." displays all changes in product's version of website correctly.
September 24th, 2009· Now AEP is fully Windows 7 compatible.
August 24th, 2009· Added command line switch -addkeyhash and command checkpubkeyrsa.
August 3rd, 2009· Added ability to decrypt file -> launch decrypted document in the associated
· application -> encrypt it again using the same password when the application
· is closed in single mouse click. This functionality is used when the encrypted file is double clicked in Windows Explorer.
· Progress window is hidden when program shows log window or when it asks "the destination file already exists. would you like to overwrite it?"
· When decrypting files from shell context menu, the keyboard focus is set
· to the password field directly.
· Some other minor usability changes and improvements
August 3rd, 2009· When wiping files from shell context menu, the progress windows is always on top of other windows.
· Some other minor bug fixes
June 22nd, 2009· Some minor bug fixes
June 9th, 2009· Now, by default, the USB engine is activated by default on first program installation.
· Clipboard Encryptor (tray icon) has "Help" item in the tray notification area context menu.
April 5th, 2009· No program crash when decrypting files from shell context menu and using option Find Password on USB in situation when any connected USB stick has no stored passwords
February 2nd, 2009· Added "Password Quality" indicator to the password window called from shell context menu.
December 29th, 2008· added checkbox "Delete this exe file after extraction" to the SFX module. I.e. after providing right password, launched SFX file will extract hidden content into external file and then this SFX file will be self-destroyed.
December 8th, 2008· SFX module (self extracting, self-decrypting exe module) had bug. On browse folder button (where to extract), and then clicking Cancel button, the text field of destination path was cleared. This bug was fixed.
November 2nd, 2008· Added progress bar to SFX module
· The module's interface is not locked during decryption now
September 26th, 2008· Version 4.8.5
· Encryption & Decryption from Shell context menu (AEP PRO): added ability to use symmetric & public PKI files from USB memory stick.
· Added ability to use virtual keyboard (as well as the ability to use binary key
· files) when decrypting files from shell context menu
August 25th, 2008· New MSI installation package
July 20th, 2008· On uninstall: tray agent (in the tray notification area) is closed properly.
July 9th, 2008· PRO: No periodic program crash when decrypting file from shell context menu using private PKI key file.
· PRO: When decrypting file using private PKI file, AEP displays error dialog if the key file is protected by password and the password is incorrect.
· Even when checkbox "Show Log Dialog" is not checked.
· PRO: PKI Keys Generator: all generated keys are automatically added to the list of known PKI keys
· Nag screen of an evaluation version does not lock the main program window when the evaluation period is not expired. It is semitransparent and it is located near tothe tray notification area.
July 6th, 2008· [*] PRO: No periodic program crash when decrypting file from shell context menu using private PKI key file.
· [*] PRO: When decrypting file using private PKI file, AEP displays error dialog if the key file is protected by password and the password is incorrect.
· Even when checkbox "Show Log Dialog" is not checked.
· [*] PRO: PKI Keys Generator: all generated keys are automatically added to the list of known PKI keys
· [ ] Nag screen of an evaluation version does not lock the main program window when the evaluation period is not expired. It is semitransparent and it is located near to the tray notification area.
June 22nd, 2008· No periodic program crash on Vista SP1 when creating new pair of PKI keys
June 9th, 2008· Added documentation for Clipboard Encryptor
May 6th, 2008· Decrypt Window from Shell Context Menu is displayed on the top of other system windows
April 21st, 2008· It is possible to set password riddle when creating SFX files from shell context menu
March 18th, 2008· Added new tool - "Tray Agent". It places an icon to the tray notification area and allows to launch main program.
· New Tray Agent supports global hot key to encrypt/decrypt text in clipboard. You just press Ctrl-C and then Ctrl-F12 hot keys in any favorite application to encrypt/decrypt selected text.
March 3rd, 2008· Main Program Window, encrypt&decrypt dialogs called from shell context menu are open on the top of other windows
January 21st, 2008· Custom output folder. Now it keeps the list of recent folders.
December 11th, 2007· AEP has been renamed into AEP 2008.
· Some minor enhancements.
October 17th, 2007· Set Output Folder. Custom. New dialog with ability to create new folder and with history of previously selected folders.
September 10th, 2007· [ ] PRO only: USB Flash Drives Tool detects empty slots in card-readers and does not show these drives in the list.
August 30th, 2007· Some changes in functionality of program in evaluation mode
July 18th, 2007· All message boxes have skin now
July 2nd, 2007· x64 (Vista, XP): RSA key files .aepkey (public and private) have icons in shell now
May 20th, 2007· RSA Key Generator. Creating new keys. Now it is possible to choose hash function for random number generator and generate random numbers for RSA keys using mouse movements.
April 25th, 2007· Windows Explorer Context Menu Encryption: "Update" button added to a "Files" window.
· Now, include & exlude file masks are used in this window to filter files by file extension.
April 10th, 2007· Windows Explorer Context Menu Encryption: it is displayed the total size of selected files.
· Windows Explorer Conterer Context Menu Encryption: the detailed list of selected files is available in "Files" window.
March 19th, 2007· Windows Explorer Context Menu Encryption: Now the total count of selected files to be encrypted/decrypted is displayed at the bottom of the encryption window
February 5th, 2007· Added interface in Finnish, Slovak and Spanish languages
January 8th, 2007· Fixed bug: incorrect "bytes left" and "time left" text fields values in progress dialog when encrypting big files (larger than 4gb)
December 10th, 2006· Now AEP is fully Windows VISTA compatible
November 20th, 2006· Now file can be decrypted on double click the file in Windows Explorer
November 6th, 2006· Context Menu Encryption: the window is fully redesigned and now it is much simplier than old one. And also it has some new features.
October 3rd, 2006· No error "program has performed invalid operation and will be closed" on exit program, some other minor bugs have been fixed
August 21st, 2006· Added new skin browser "Options / Change Skin...". All skins are hosted on our server now.
· It is not required to restart program when current skin is being changed
July 25th, 2006· Added ability to use RSA Keys from USB Flash Drive in "E-Mail->Text Encryption Tool (PKI)".
· Fixed bug: serial numbers of USB Flash Drives were detected incorrectly sometimes.
July 24th, 2006· Added ability to use RSA Keys from USB Flash Drive in "E-Mail->Text Encryption Tool (PKI)".
· Fixed bug: serial numbers of USB Flash Drives were detected incorrectly sometimes.
July 24th, 2006· Added ability to use RSA Keys from USB Flash Drive in "E-Mail->Text Encryption Tool (PKI)".
· Fixed bug: serial numbers of USB Flash Drives were detected incorrectly sometimes.
May 29th, 2006· No error "PKI Key file is not valid" on encryption a file into SFX
May 19th, 2006· [!] No "Please choose Key File" error message on create SFX archives. This message appeared sometime.
· [ ] Added ability to edit keys on USB Passwords Storage - Flash Drive
May 15th, 2006· Added ability to edit keys on USB Passwords Storage - Flash Drive
February 28th, 2006· Added ability to create and use binary passwords (Virtual Keyboard window).
· Improved algorithm of Password Quality indicator
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