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- Sat Jul 17, 2021 8:02 am
- Forum: AES Crypt
- Topic: AES Crypt Error message: Message has been altered and shou
- Replies: 11
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Re: AES Crypt Error message: Message has been altered and shou
Fair enough re that bug, doesn't seem like a security vulnerability really, just a way somebody could thumb their nose at you for no practical gain. The next entry on the list is fair warning, though not really an issue for me, my backup system leaves the encrypted [blah].rar and the further encrypt...
- Fri Jul 16, 2021 5:41 am
- Forum: AES Crypt
- Topic: AES Crypt Error message: Message has been altered and shou
- Replies: 11
- Views: 34406
Re: AES Crypt Error message: Message has been altered and shou
Solution / answer OK, I got a copy of the same .aes file from cloud storage, which decrypts just fine, and recopied the duff one from the external drive and set UltraCompare a heavy task to spot the differences - turns out not to be too complicated, they are identical from byte 0 to the byte before ...
- Fri Jul 16, 2021 4:24 am
- Forum: AES Crypt
- Topic: AES Crypt Error message: Message has been altered and shou
- Replies: 11
- Views: 34406
Re: AES Crypt Error message: Message has been altered and shou
TL;DR - read next message instead. >It is possible to know, though, since there are two HMACs and the first would indicate whether the proper key was provided. Ah, good idea to have 2 levels, nice bit of design there. In my case the password is definitely OK as the output file, post error message is...
- Thu Jul 15, 2021 7:14 am
- Forum: AES Crypt
- Topic: AES Crypt Error message: Message has been altered and shou
- Replies: 11
- Views: 34406
Re: AES Crypt Error message: Message has been altered and shou
Thanks Paul, good tip re command line, I use your software to crunch lots of little files here and there which contain login credentials and the like so it's really handy for me used via the explorer shell rather than opening a console to do it. I have a handcrafted Powershell backup system that var...
- Thu Jul 15, 2021 3:12 am
- Forum: AES Crypt
- Topic: AES Crypt Error message: Message has been altered and shou
- Replies: 11
- Views: 34406
Re: AES Crypt Error message: Message has been altered and shou
Hi, this is a very old thread but I just had the same error message on a 6Gb encrypt of a zip file. I used the trick mentioned by the OP, namely of killing explorer instead of hitting the OK button, I needed to kill the top-level explorer task rather than the sub-task of the error message or the dec...