What's new in ProxyCrypt 2.6.3
Jan 12, 2023
- Updated driver to version 2.1.1 in full package
- Updated MinGW from 10.2.1 to 11.2.1
New in ProxyCrypt 2.6.2 (Apr 29, 2021)
- added a sound ("bell" character) in case of password or hash file error
New in ProxyCrypt 2.6.1 (Mar 31, 2021)
- Performances improved thanks to a new way to call the XTS functions
- Performance fix for AES-NI (appeared in 2.6.0)
- Cancelled changes made in optimization script in 2.6.0
New in ProxyCrypt 2.6.0 (Oct 21, 2020)
- Added an option to change the font and colors of the current console (Vista and later)
- Critical error messages are now displayed in message boxes, with option to retry when possible
- Updated MinGW from 7.3.0 to 10.2.1 (released by LH_Mouse)
- Improved optimization script
- Minor fixes
New in ProxyCrypt 2.5.2 (Aug 29, 2020)
- Fix: write errors occurred when 64 threads were used for encryption; max number of threads is now 63 (appeared in 2.4.0)
- Minimal new image file size is now 69 KB, because of a new requirement of imdisk driver 2.0.8 and later
New in ProxyCrypt 2.5.1 (Mar 1, 2020)
- Access to image files is now unbuffered (use -bio in case of hardware incompatibility)
New in ProxyCrypt 2.3.0 (Jul 9, 2019)
- The imdisk driver (imdisk.sys) can now be loaded automatically if located in the same directory
- New self-sufficient package with a dedicated portable version of the imdisk driver
New in ProxyCrypt 2.2.0 (Mar 22, 2019)
- hard drive can now be selected by its signature
- fix: with an encrypted drive/partition that has 4-KB logical sectors, imdisk could fail the mounting
- sector size is now displayed with -v 2
- updated MinGW from 6.2.0 to 7.3.0
New in ProxyCrypt 2.1.3 (Dec 17, 2018)
- Fix: -pp required 3 parameters instead of 1 when used with -kn or -kon
New in ProxyCrypt 2.1.2 (Oct 30, 2017)
- Fix: missing error handling for process creation could lead to unpredictable results
- Optimized Keccak and Whirlpool
New in ProxyCrypt 2.1.1 (Mar 14, 2017)
- Fix: a bug could prevent the volume to be mounted (appeared in 2.1.0)
New in ProxyCrypt 2.1.0 (Mar 14, 2017)
- New random number generator
- Tables derived from encryption keys, after being computed, are now Set as read-only
- Improved check of directory used as mount point
- AES instructions can now be disabled with -noaesni
- Each encryption and decryption function of each build now has its own optimization parameter
- Updated MinGW from 5.3.0 to 6.2.0
New in ProxyCrypt 2.0.5 (Mar 14, 2017)
- Key file assignment can now be removed
- Minor fixes and improvements
New in ProxyCrypt 2.0.4 (Mar 14, 2017)
- Fix: a crash could occur when mounting a volume that uses Whirlpool (appeared in 2.0.2)
New in ProxyCrypt 2.0.3 (Mar 14, 2017)
- Fix: volume header was not properly saved with -b (appeared in 2.0.0)
- Restored compatibility with backups of volume header version 1
- Optimized code size of scrypt
New in ProxyCrypt 2.0.2 (Mar 14, 2017)
New in ProxyCrypt 2.0.1 (Mar 14, 2017)
- Fix: some empty drives (such as card readers) could be improperly detected with the -l switch
- Fix: -l could not work on Windows XP (appeared in 1.8.1)
New in ProxyCrypt 2.0.0 (Mar 14, 2017)
- Replaced the Twofish cipher by SHACAL-2 (Twofish no longer available)
- Added the ability to use a key file, in conjunction or replacement of password
- Added tuning of the scrypt key derivation function for better performances or security
- Volumes can now be created with random content
- Added new faster executables for CPU with AVX instructions