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On further investigation, my description wasn't entirely accurate. AEScrypt won't start on my Mac if I just click on the icon. The problem dropping a plaintext file onto the dock icon was caused by the length of the filename. The name of my test file was three characters long, resulting in an error ...

Thanks for the reply Paul. I wasn't suggesting that knowing that a file is encrypted in any way increases the likelihood that the file may be decrypted. My reason for this is to do with plausible deniability a la Truecrypt and similar products. If I have a file entitled (say) randomseeddata.bin of w...

If you know how to look at the raw bytes of the file, a quick look there would tell you. The first three bytes of an AES Crypt file are 'AES'. I'm not aware of any other tools that do that. Paul I was browsing the forum when I came across this. If I understand you correctly, AES Crypt prepends &quo...

The command line utility works fine for me (although I did have to do a bit of fiddling around with the man pages as there was no installer), but the GUI won't start properly. When I run the GUI the icon appears in the dock and then immediately disappears. If I click on an .aes file, it is decrypted...