New product using aescrypt (s3express)

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s.sec
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New product using aescrypt (s3express)

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Hi, I do not know if this is the right place to announce a new product that uses aescrypt.exe....

We have just released a new product that uses aescrypt (optionally). The new product is called s3express ( http://www.s3express.com ) : it's an Amazon S3 command line utility for Windows and it optionally uses aescrypt.exe to encrypt files just before uploading them to S3 (locally encrypted), more details on usage can be found here (option -le):
http://www.s3express.com/help/vv_put.html#le

Thank you for a great encryption utility !
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Re: New product using aescrypt (s3express)

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Very cool. I wrote some backup software on Linux that also uploads to S3 and uses aescrypt in the back end. It's called Pug (http://pug.packetizer.com). Since my software was written in Perl on Linux, calling aescrypt made sense. If your software could benefit from direct integration, I can help with that (when I find a moment). The only issue is that pesky GNU license on some of the code. I want to replace those modules, but you're at liberty to do it yourself if you want. I was considering using code from OpenSSL. But, I need time to fully evaluate performance, etc.

Anyway, this sounds like a useful utility!
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Re: New product using aescrypt (s3express)

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Hi, thanks! S3Express is written in C++ (runs on Windows only), so yes we could integrate the aescrypt code in S3Express code directly, without the need to call aescrypt.exe externally... however we decided against it for the time being because:

a) We want users to trust the encryption functionality provided and the best way is always to rely on open source code (=the original aescrypt.exe).

b) Maybe in the future we could integrate with other encryption tools.

Calling aescrypt.exe externally is working great. I have backed up all "my documents" and all "my pictures" to S3 and all files are both client-side (aescrypt.exe) and server-side encrypted by S3. We also provide the option to add a metadata header to each file with a hint question if the aescrypt.exe password is forgotten. ;)
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Re: New product using aescrypt (s3express)

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Really good that AESCrypt is implemented in other programs, so it spreads arround.
What I do not like is when Open-Source-Freeware is used in Shareware. :-D
http://www.s3express.com/buy.htm
License for
1 Computer US $99.95
2-5 Computers US $79.95 each
6-10 Computers US $74.95 each
11+ Computers US $69.95 each

But that is only my personal opinion, I would not buy it.
Of course it is OK that somebody charges money for his work.
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