AES Crypt Wish List

There are thousands of users of AES Crypt and from time to time, we received requests for new features and capabilities. As free software, it is very challenging for us to add new features. Even so, we do make revisions as time permits. To this point, we have had 3 major releases of the software with minor bug fix releases in between.

This page exists to document the features that people request most frequently that we plan to implement as soon as time permits as a part of release 4.0 or perhaps an interim minor release. Of course, we would warmly welcome contributions from others in the open source community.

If you would like to submit items to be added to the wish list, please join the mailing list and propose your ideas!

• Ability to control whether AES Crypt inserts the current default extensions or not (refer to the file format page for a description of extensions)
• Behavior change: change the Linux code base to not attempt to open file for output before it successfully opens the file for input.
• Ability to specify a file (e.g., with a -k flag) to use to store the encryption/decryption key, rather than prompt for a password
• Support for AES encryption using different key lengths (e.g., 128, 256, 512 bits)