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@(#) $Id: ChangeLog.txt,v 2.10 2005/03/16 20:11:10 svante Exp $
1.6.1 2005-03-16
- Bug: Use default verb instead of 'open' for launch. [BUG 1051728, 1079066, 1016467]
- Bug: Would return non-zero exit with -g if last file was ignored. [BUG 1049954]
- Bug: Upgrades would fail under a number of circumstances. [BUG 1044590]
- Bug: Install to non-standard directory followed by uninstall may remove more than intended. Bad! [INTERNAL]
- Chg: Made shell extension tolerant for Servant Salamander difference from Windows Explorer. [BUG 1161640]
- Chg: Files not removed from temp folder when using Open Office. [BUG 1112578]
- Chg: Modified logic for releasing and reencrypting after launch. [BUG 1105922]
- Chg: Fixing various bugs in the installer, but also redesigned much of the upgrade/uninstall logic. [INTERNAL]
- Chg: Minor changes to structure to work well with sourceforge CVS. [INTERNAL]
- New: Full support for automatic 'runas' during install when not administrator. [BUG 1091308]
- New: Terminal Server/Remote Desktop/XP User Switching-aware, support for same user in different sessions. [INTERNAL]
1.6 2004-11-27
- Bug: Context menus in the wrong contexts removed. [BUG 1031514]
- Bug: Yet another case of upgrade installing mixed versions of files. [BUG 986073, 984161, 984470]
- Bug: Windows positioned wrong on systems with multiple monitors. [INTERNAL]
- Bug: Command line reference to single files did not use current directory properly. [INTERNAL]
- Bug: Some API assertions could fail though successful. [INTERNAL]
- Chg: Removed from Most Frequently Used on the Start Menu.
- Chg: Added confirmation dialog before sending registration info during install.
- Chg: Major re-org of project and new compile options.
- Chg: Various minor tweaks too numerous to list.
- Chg: Increased secure heap size to 48K. [INTERNAL]
- Chg: Streamlined assertion handling. [INTERNAL]
- Chg: Primary waits for ever for secondary. Avoids double pop-ups sometimes. [INTERNAL]
- Chg: Improved message display on startup errors. [INTERNAL]
- Chg: Added support for Norwegian, Hungarian and Dutch. Waiting for full translations.
- Chg: Moved some static names out to Config.XML instead of using resources. [INTERNAL]
- New: Setup program digitally signed with Authenticode Code Signing.
- New: Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) Code signing.
- New: Signed XML-based configuration data.
- New: Trial counter and Short ECDSA license support.
- New: -l switch to start license manager added.
- New: -O Path-to-exe added. Allows specifying the application to use to open.
1.5.4.2 2004-09-11
- Bug: Upgrade failed with bad message texts if reboot was required. [BUG 1022932]
- Chg: Improved support for private branding - only install and texts. [INTERNAL]
- Chg: Minor change to texts. [INTERNAL]
1.5.4 2004-08-28
- Bug: Upgrade failed with mixed versions of files installed. [BUG 986073, 984161, 984470]
- Bug: Installation errors when using the root dir of drive as system temp. [BUG 981879]
- Bug: 'Access is denied' sometimes when saving with Network Associates VirusScan 7 [BUG 1012979]
- Bug: Sometimes failed encryption in GetTempPath() 'The operation completed successfully'. [BUG 1005884]
- Bug: Did not 'see' hidden files when 'show hidden' is enabled in Windows Explorer. [BUG 1005395]
- Bug: Encrypt copy to .EXE did not work on NT 4. [BUG 984161]
- Chg: Modified default for new install to not save passphrase for decryption. [BUG 993382]
- Chg: Installer checks for Admin privileges before start. [RFE 1017381]
- Chg: Show a nice little bitmap next to the Windows Explorer context menu item. [INTERNAL]
- Chg: Better error messages when abnormal exceptions occur in some cases. [INTERNAL]
- Chg: Installer checks for at least IE 4 before start. [INTERNAL]
1.5.3.1 2004-06-28
- Bug: Re-/Uninstall with custom Start Menu-folder may delete other folders. [BUG 981891]
1.5.3 2004-06-28
- Chg: Possible to save key for both encryption and decryption at the same time.
- Chg: Modifications to make installation scripts parameterized. [Internal]
- Chg: Shell Ext refers to documentation URL via registry instead of hardcode. [Internal]
- Chg: Shell Ext as single threaded compile (runs in STA) [Internal]
- Chg: Prettier 'do-not-ask-again' warning dialogs, dynamic sizing etc.
- Chg: Make Key-File option is now always available and works in a sensible manner.
- Chg: The time of encryption is now left alone as time-stamp on the result. [RFE 956052]
- New: Bug reporting link in start menu and context menu.
- Bug: Decreased CPU consumption in idle state. [BUG 951378]
- Bug: When selecting the desktop in Windows Explorer it would assert in some cases.
- Bug: Blank passphrases were acceptable. [BUG 972431]
- Bug: Edit encrypted did not work in NT4. [BUG 970663/881520]
- Bug: Install script broken for NT4 - did not install psapi.dll. [BUG 970663/881520]
- Bug: Quitely ignores Self-Decrypting EXE's when making SDX's. [BUG 960480]
- Bug: Would crate Self-Decrypt EXE with no data when output name was changed. [INTERNAL]
- Bug: Version number reported incorrectly on some OS's. [INTERNAL]
1.5.2 2004-05-05
- Chg: Completed the Spanish translation. Thank you Jacobo Fortuny Ayuso!
- Chg: 'Create key file' menu available when a file is selected too. [BUG 938720]
- Chg: Elaborated handling of unlocked files, allowing reencrypt before process exit. [BUG 933483]
- Chg: More robust use of zlib - full sync every 64K, makes data recovery more feasible.
- Chg: Updated zlib to latest version 1.2.1.
- Chg: Migrated to Visual Studio 2002/VC7. Sorry, no more official VC6 support.
- New: Implemented Encrypt to Copy due to popular request. [RFE 898668]
- Bug: Debug code inserted in install, to determine cause of some multiple registrations.
- Bug: Lost network connection or forced device removal cause loss of changes [BUG 929538]
- Bug: File explorer menu unusable/grey after encrypt/decrypt [BUG 944281]
1.5.1 2004-03-21
- Bug: Wild-card expansion would terminate early if ignoring already encrypted file.
- Bug: Encryption of zero-sized file would fail in some cases.
- Bug: Current directory when server started got locked. [BUG 906612]
- Bug: WinMain would sometimes fail to open mutex, and abort during install etc.
- Bug: Notification would sometimes fail [BUG 917704]
- New: Dynamic key wrap strength determination during installation.
- New: Key-file support and generation.
- New: Self-decrypting .exe files. [RFE 861640]
- New: Stand-alone, setup-free, decrypt utility.
- New: Do not allow decryption with wrong extension, unless registry-overridden.
- New: FastModeDefault reg key implemented to define default mode.
- New: Put the 'Notify Me' option in the 'about' box.
- New: Make the documentation 'readme' available in the 'about' box.
- New: 'About' available on the context menu, with per-file version information etc. [RFE 859023]
- Chg: Tons of minor changes and improvements.
- Chg: Made wipe and delete remove empty directories and work like winexplorer delete. [RFE 783938]
- Chg: Improved warning dialog, with 'Cancel' button and icon.
- Chg: Save As-dialogs use extension-based filter instead of *.*.
- Chg: Modify file name extension handling for save as dialogues.
- Chg: Check HKCU and HKLM for DefaultLanguageId.
- Chg: Installer selected language as default HKLM... DefaultLanguageId.
- Chg: Context menu will now appear for hidden files too. [BUG 879358/SUP 862094]
- Chg: Fast Mode now affects all modes of encryption/decryption not only copy.
- Chg: More conservative determination of when a user is done with a file.
- Chg: When encrypting, change last dot to a dash in original file name.
- Chg: Use XP visual styles on XP.
- Chg: Encryption Key Wrap Iteration count is now a HKLM base-default, overrideable by HKCU.
1.4.3 2003-08-11
- Chg: Safer handling of user saves to temp directory. [BUG 772041/RFE 770500]
- Bug: Folders on the desktop did not display all menu choices. [BUG 780153]
- Bug: Wild cards did not work properly from command line. [BUG 775442]
- Bug: Launch of 16-bit apps failed with new logic. [BUG 770496]
- Bug: Memory leak in CCryptoRand, 48 bytes per file wipe.[BUG 766283]
1.4.2 2003-07-04
- Bug: In stress-situations, one progress wnd became the parent of another.
- Bug: Too many warnings about temp directory sometimes.
- Bug: Did not clean temp after launch when launch failed sometimes.
- Bug: Possible access violation during wipe of heap, bad destroy order.
- Bug: Install/Uninstall problems as restricted user on 2K with FAT32 or unprotected file-system.
- Bug: Now runs as non-Administrator on NT/2K/XP etc. [BUG 688184, 699260]
- Bug: Second start of function server without params caused annoying error.
- Bug: All file I/O memory mapped. Fixes broken files in non-ms networks. [BUG 675675 ?]
- New: Support TryBrokenFile reg-key, to allow attempted decrypt anyway.
- New: Copy 512 bytes from start of file to clipboard for broken file analysis.
- New: Support plug-in for brute-force key-recovery. Not a backdoor!
- New: Wild-card expansion of file-names on the command line. [BUG 677755/RFE 677778]
- Chg: Minimize box on progress window.
- Chg: Better getopt(), command-line options work better.
- Chg: Ctrl-V works to paste passphrases.
- Chg: Allow read-only open of opened encrypted file. [RFE 696578]
- Chg: Show Save As dialoge if encrypt/decrypt target creation fails.
- Chg: Wipe from shell ext now interprets yes as for all files. [RFE 732021]
- Chg: Re-confirm wipe for every directory iterated through.
- Chg: Encrypted file now maintains time-stamp of plain-text. [RFE 675594]
- Chg: Improved handling of read-only files, retain the attrib. Thanks D. Nay.
- Chg: Default encryption key is not used for decryption. [RFE 679682]
- Fix: No "'Program' is about to exit" when installing/uninstalling.
- Fix: Improved handling in out-of-memory situations.
- Fix: Writes through on plain/cipher files. Fixes some probs with removable media. [BUG 750230]
- Fix: Several fixes in install/unstall script. [BUG 688184, 699260]
1.4.1 2003-01-06
- Chg: Worker thread now runs one step below normal priority.
- Fix: Still shell file lock situations. Brute force fix in CFileIO.
- Bug: CDummyFile allocated space in the swap file, typo in header.
- Bug: Sometimes set default encryption key to last decryption key.
- Bug: -a did not actually store the key in the cache after asking for it.
- Bug: Operations on Desktop-items on Win 98 caused irritating error msg popup.
- Bug: Right-Click on Computer in Network Neigborhood on Win98 caused error and crash.
1.4 2002-11-27
- New: -Y will display the tag of an encrypted file, if any.
- New: -y "A tag" will place a cleartext tag in the headers during -z operations.
- New: Italian program texts by Stefano Paganini - Thank You!
- Chg: Command-line switches are now case-sensitive, so far all are lower case...
- Chg: Better install/uninstall script, improved upgrade handling.
- Fix: -n now works better, as an override of other defaults, including dir only.
- Fix: Potential memory leaks from CVersion calls fixed.
- Bug: -k "" caused access violation.
- Bug: In Windows XP .zip and .cab etc files caused crash due to change in XP.
- Bug: Access violation in certain cases when not using -n switch.
- Bug: MSG_OPEN_LAUNCH did not show system error in some languages.
- Bug: Forward compatibility failed when new header types were added. :-(.
- Bug: Global strings were 'delete'd after the heap was 'delete'd.
- Bug: Uninstall twice would fail.
- Bug: The shell extension hogged the "Windows-key-E" hot-key combination.
- Bug: -u failed sometimes if registry partially cleared before.
- Bug: File wiping sometimes outsmarted by OS caching. Now ensures flush and write thru.
1.3.0.2 2002-08-28
- Bug: Problems if launched with differing usage of case, i.e. program and ProGram
- Bug: -n option did not overwrite existing, as it should, but warned instead.
- Bug: Memory leak when using ExtProductName from CVersion().
1.3 2002-08-25
- New: No compression if no gain - older versions can't read these files.
- New: Anonymous rename - give files 'hidden' names. Restores on decrypt. Both dll and -h.
- New: Test for key in cache with -q.
- New: Ignore encryption requests for already encrypted with -g.
- Chg: Fixes to remove dependencies on the program name.
- Chg: Unused header space is random filled to make known plain-text attacks harder.
- Fix: Entropy gathering is maximized to 2 seconds after activity stops.
- Fix: Progress window is closed when displaying error message.
1.2.1 2002-08-20
- New: Registry flag ServerMode causes all interactivity to disappear etc.
- New: -n command to specify the output name instead of default.
- New: -f flag for fast. Increases speed at the expense of security.
- Chg: Meaning of '-c' option to be a copy-flag instead of a directive.
- Chg: Now can do copy both decrypting and encrypting from command-line.
- Chg: Undocumented NoDecryptMode does just that. Requires re-start to change.
- Chg: The log-file, if any, is now written to the temp-dir instead of win-dir.
- Fix: Lots of clean-up in code. Again. Better naming. Use of CRegistry.
- Fix: LogEvent now ensures data is only one line, regardless of length etc.
- Fix: Lots of internal fixes to prepare for future directions.
- Bug: Failure to write to log-file caused hang or crash.
- Bug: An internal data structure (SRequest) was not zeroed properly. Minor.
1.2 2002-08-14
- Bug: Only partial key was used to wrap data encrypting key. Major!
- Bug: Can now encrypt Media Player files in 2K with Active Desktop enabled.
- Bug: Thread list purge sometimes crashed.
- Bug: Mutex handle was closed twice in a normal exit. Minor.
- Bug: Opened and reencrypted files were not version id updated. Minor.
- New: Spanish translation by Carlos Fuentes - Thank You!
- New: Now handles multiple file selections and folders.
- New: Caches default encryption key too.
- New: Registry sticky choice of caching keys or not.
- New: Warns about file system encrypted or compressed files when wiping.
- New: Ensures that the program temp directory is not compressed.
- New: Full-featured command-line interface.
- Fix: Clean-up of main code.
- Fix: Changed strategy for starting main process thread, now always orthogonal.
- Fix: Some minor corrections and changes to texts.
1.1 2002-04-26
- Bug: Sometimes failed with message about CEntropy::Invalid Handle when cleaning up old temp data.
- Bug: Would not pick correct forced language first time in a dialogue.
- Bug: May not pick correct key wrap iteration count from registry.
- Bug: May skip first file deleting tmp-dir. Changed while() {} to do {} while()
- Add: German translation by Juergen Nieveler - Thank You!
- Add: French translation by Carl Seleborg - Thank You!
1.0c1.1 2002-03-23
- Security fix: Zlib upgrade to 1.1.4 after CERT advisory
1.0c1 2002-03-06
- Bug: Editing Excel document in already opened Excel failed at close after saved changes.
- Bug: Accumulating timer interrupts during suspend causing long resume time in portables.
- Bug: Logging off sometimes caused entropy timer problem. Cleanup to not use WM_TIMER, only threads.
- Bug: Handle leak in LogEvent() caused exception "Reading Event Log Level", insufficient resources.
- Chg: Use parity bit of low 32 bits from RDTSC instead of bit 0 in CEntropy::GatherThread()
- Fix: sha1 code is now reentrant, i.e. thread-safe.
- Add: DefaultLanguageId in registry to force language selection
0.0b6 2002-01-27
- Apartment threading compatibility for ShellExt as InprocServer32.
- Proper class implementation of entropy pool.
- Added a software bit oscillator-based entropy source.
- Added use of Pentium cycle counter as entropy source.
- Increased default KeyWrapIterations to 10000, instead of 6.
- Read KeyWrapIterations from registry, to prepare for user-settable option.
- Salt the input to the Key Wrap Algorithm with 16-bytes of PRNG'd salt.
- Make a doc-folder and a separate package for that.
- Selfdestructing class template for handles to ensure handle closure.
- Selfdestructing class template for pointers to ensure pointer deletion.
- Auto wipe of left-over files in 'Program' temp directory structure.
- Cleanup: Create a Utility module for misc utility functions.
- Proper Key Wrapping using AES Key Wrapping Specification
- Move secured heap into Temp-directory toplevel subdirectory.
- Fix: Do not SaveEntropy() when exiting after maintenance-only actions such as UnInstall.
- Ensure use of (limited and defined) Ansi charset on passphrase reading.
- 64-bit file lengths in appropriate headers. Header lengths will remain 32 bit.
- Implicit info about encryption alg, key len etc in the file format.
- Support for optional encryption in the file format.
- Support for optional compression in the file format.
- GUID first, not in a header.
0.0b5 2002-01-02
- Bug fix: The Context Menu now works on XP as well.
- Bug fix: the secured heap was not always delete'd properly, is now.
- Improved temp files and directory handling. Now all under ...\Program except for secured heap
- Code now supports 64-bit file lengths. Will implement in file format together with other changes.
- Version numbers are fetched from version resource, not constants and strings in the code.
- Sub-context-menu to allow multiple operations.
- New 'Wipe' command implemented.
- Improved handling of system shutdown, logoff and forced exit.
- Event logging to text file Program.log in windows directory (if enabled in registry).
- New logic for keeping track of active threads.
- NEXT BETA WILL BE FINAL AND WILL INCLUDE INCOMPATIBLE FILE FORMAT CHANGES!
0.0b4 2001-12-02
- Fixed loop with 'Decrypt and Unwrap' of files longer than 1024 bytes.
- Move plain text-files under editing into unique directories under temp dir.
- Pre-scan headers, avoid 'memory alloc' errors and give clearer reports on invalid files.
- Completely new logic for how to detect when document editing is done.
- Wait for application exit on system shutdown or logoff
- Improved PRNG with entropy pool, both persistent in registry and volatile in memory.
- Verify encryption padding to increase robustness.
- Handle system shutdown and logoff gracefully (can still be improved...)
- Only use secured heap in primary instance
- Plugged some memory leaks and implemented heap checkpointing
- Further improvements to decrypt-and-launch logic
0.0b3
- Fixed crash with "Error in system call CloseHandle()" on second start of the Program.
0.0b2 2001-11-19
- Allocate 10 proc id's at a time in CChildProc, debug value was 1.
- Moved CloseHandle of worker threads to CActiveThreads, and asserted.
- Proper delete of gpKeyStore on exit.
0.0b1 2001-11-19
Initial version to a few testers.