Using AES Crypt on Mac

The Mac version of AES Crypt offers a simple to use drag and drop GUI to enable you to securely encrypt and decrypt files on your Mac. Below is a screen shot of what it looks like:

An inportant note is that the GUI applicaton is actually a script that executes the command-line version created for the Mac. To install the GUI application, just put the contents of the AESCrypt.app directory into the /Applications directory.

Command-Line Option

The Mac version of AES Crypt was created from the source code created for Linux. It works exactly like the Linux version. So, rather than repeating much or all of the same information, please refer to the Linux page for examples of how to use AES Crypt on the Mac.

For those who wish to compile your own binaries, all you need to do is install the Xcode development tools, modify the Makefile to link with 'iconv' (i.e., '-l iconv'), and type "make". Apple could not have made it any simpler.