Alternatives to AESCrypt

Open TranceLove opened this issue 5 months ago • 1 comments

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. As of April 2025 it is found that AESCrypt had updated to V3, while their source code had been removed and changed their license model to 30-day trialware.

While AESCrypt V2 will continue to work, we shall need to consider alternatives to AEScrypt for file encryption in Amaze.

The new encryption method may not be compatible with AESCrypt as there was no direct drop-in replacements however.

Describe the solution you'd like Porting Picocrypt to Java and implement support in Amaze

Describe alternatives you've considered Implement AESCrypt V3 support with limited information released to public and face the possibilities of license issue if we support AESCrypt V3 too.

Aug 03 '25 11:08 TranceLove

Could PGP be a suitable alternative for file encryption? (obviously we should protect backwards compatibility) It's very convenient on linux using gpg -c so one could easily work with files between desktop and phone

Aug 05 '25 09:08 dchenz