Picocrypt/Changelog.md

Future

• Migrate golang.org/x/crypto to standard library imports (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/65269)
• (Under consideration) Better web app; add advanced features

v1.34 (No ETA)

• (WIP) New CLI with support for files, folders, globs, paranoid mode, and Reed-Solomon
• Unzip after decryption (advanced feature)
• Migrate github.com/HACKERALERT/crypto back to golang.org/x/crypto
• Distribute raw Linux binary instead of AppImage for better portability

v1.33 (Released 06/27/2023)

• ✓ Add tooltip warning that comments are not encrypted (#164)
• ✓ Hash keyfiles in chunks to reduce memory usage (#168)
• ✓ Prevent using identical keyfiles under different filenames (#170)

v1.32 (Released 04/28/2023)

• ✓ Added a command-line interface
• ✓ Use Debian 11 as the base for the AppImage instead of Debian 10
• ✓ Include software rendering DLLs in the Paranoid Pack for future proofing
• ✓ Add plausible deniability and recursive encryption
• ✓ Added an installer for Windows (made using Inno Setup)

v1.31 (Released 11/18/2022)

• ✓ Force software OpenGL rendering on macOS
• ✓ Use native clipboard APIs instead of external package (removes need for xclip)
• ✓ Revert using system temporary folder due to size issues

v1.30 (Released 09/24/2022)

• ✓ Improve tooltip word choice
• ✓ Add FAQ to README
• ✓ Fix scaling issue when moving between monitors with different DPIs (on Windows)
• ✓ Strip periods from custom output filename to prevent file extension problems
• ✓ Minor tweaks to keyfile modal
• ✓ Use temporary .zip file to prevent overwriting when encrypting
• ✓ Check if files already exist when recombining and splitting to prevent overwriting
• ✓ Show ".*" in the output box if splitting
• ✓ Skip temporary and inaccessible files when combining/compressing
• ✓ Improve file scanning performance by precomputing total size
• ✓ Stability improvements and fixes for edge cases
• ✓ Check for clipboard support on Linux

v1.29 (Released 05/23/2022)

• ✓ Review/improve Internals.md
• ✓ Add option to compress when encrypting a single file
• ✓ Check for errors when not enough disk space
• ✓ Show MiB/GiB instead of M/G in the input label to prevent confusion
• ✓ Minor consistency improvements

v1.28 (Released 05/16/2022)

• ✓ Fix bug when decrypting a splitted volume with a custom output name and "Delete files" selected
• ✓ Improve responsiveness of cancel button (instant cancel when pressed instead of delays)
• ✓ Software OpenGL rendering on Windows (for Windows on ARM compatibility and older hardware)
• ✓ Progress, speed, and ETA for combining/compressing files, recombining files, and splitting files
• ✓ Improve overall IO performance
• ✓ Much smoother Reed-Solomon decryption flow, slightly better performance
• ✓ Major code cleanups and organizing
• ✓ Much better file permission handling
• ✓ Numerous minor fixes and improvements
• ✓ Improve Reed-Solomon performance (only rebuild data if corruption is detected)
• ✓ `gofmt` and `go mod tidy` all dependencies
• ✓ Fix bad pointer issue when running with `-race`
• ✓ Fix focus bug where input boxes are not cleared if they are focused when file is dropped
• ✓ Fix bug on Windows where copying from the password field using Ctrl+C and then pasting with the "Paste" button would cause a crash
• ✓ Make sure at least one password characters category is checked when generating
• ✓ Use `desktop-file-validate` to find and remove deprecated fields and fix invalid ones in the .desktop for .deb and AppImage
• ✓ .deb and AppImage optimizations, reliability improvements
• ✓ Snapcraft uses software OpenGL rendering as well now
• ✓ Statically linked libc6, etc. for best cross-platform compatibility for Snapcraft
• ✓ Added NO_AT_BRIDGE=1 to Snapcraft to fix an issue on Arch Linux (#75)
• ✓ Clean up unnecessary files in dependencies
• ✓ Sign executables with OpenPGP

v1.27 (Released 05/02/2022)

• ✓ Input validation for split size
• ✓ Ability to split into a custom number of total chunks in addition to by size
• ✓ Fix issue with long comments
• ✓ Deprecate Snapcraft and provide a .deb and AppImage instead

v1.26 (Released 04/18/2022)

• ✓ Fix a race condition
• ✓ Fix invalid pointer crash when decrypting files >256GB
• ✓ UI improvements and tweaks
• ✓ Fix crash on Windows when saving to the root directory of a drive
• ✓ Max file size limit removed! Picocrypt can now encrypt files of unlimited size instead of being capped at 256 GiB
• ✓ Shows total input size along with input label
• ✓ Update to GLFW 3.3.6 for better stability

v1.25 (Released 04/13/2022)

• ✓ Improve Internals documentation (header format, etc.)
• ✓ Save as and keyfile file dialog now opens in the same directory as dropped files
• ✓ Improvements for long file names
• ✓ Minor UI improvements and fixes

v1.24 (Released 04/02/2022)

• ✓ Fixed layout bug that allowed scrolling within window
• ✓ Optimize dependencies
• ✓ Numerous code and UI optimizations, including better comments
• ✓ Keyfile modal will recenter automatically upon dropping a keyfile
• ✓ Fix modals moving around randomly when open and closed numerous times
• ✓ Fixed: Progressbar modal moves around weirdly sometimes
• ✓ Better error handling
• ✓ Show compression speed and percentage
• ✓ Smoothen splitting file and recombing file progress bars
• ✓ Finish adding tooltips

v1.23 (Released 03/19/2022)

• ✓ Removed the checksum generator to get back on track with original Picocrypt ideology
• ✓ Cleaned up and optimized code
• ✓ Compiled with MinGW GCC11 instead of TDM-GCC, Go 1.18 instead of Go 1.17
• ✓ Picocrypt no longer checks for new versions, so no network requests are ever made

v1.22 (Released 12/22/2021)

• ✓ Remove fast mode, as a change for the normal mode will make fast mode obselete
• ✓ For normal mode, change HMAC-SHA3 to a keyed Blake2b

v1.21 (Released 11/19/2021)

• ✓ Remove file shredder because it won't be very effective in the future
• ✓ Fix minor temporary file bug
• ✓ Improve decryption UI

v1.20 (Released 11/12/2021)

• ✓ Fix keyfile modal UI layout
• ✓ Fix keyfile modal typo
• ✓ Fix minor keyfile bug
• ✓ Improve shredding window layout
• ✓ Fork all dependencies and recursive dependencies into "offline" repos for hardening and better stability
• ✓ Fix UI scaling issues
• ✓ Fix high DPI layout issues
• ✓ Optimize zip compressor

v1.19 (Released 09/26/2021)

• ✓ UI scaling hotfix

v1.18 (Released 09/24/2021)

• ✓ Make UI more consistent (minor DPI issues)
• ✓ Fix crashing when OS denies permission to access file
• ✓ Fixed bug where file object was not closed properly
• ✓ Encryption/decryption file naming and extension bugs
• ✓ Many fixes, optimizations, and linting

v1.17 (Released 09/04/2021)

• ✓ (abandoned due to UI issues with ASCII codes >128) Extended ASCII set in password generator
• ✓ Tooltips for all advanced options
• ✓ Localization support (use system default where possible)
• ✓ Auto detect system locale, fallback to English
• ✓ Fix ETA negative number bug
• ✓ Add clear button to password field
• ✓ Multiple keyfiles support and DND
• ✓ Option to require specific keyfile order
• ✓ Keyfile generator
• ✓ Bug: Red error label shown in main window during successful decryption after selecting incorrect keyfiles
• ✓ Prevent duplicate keyfile
• ✓ Add a select keyfile button
• ✓ Make sure only one of "Fast mode" and "Paranoid mode" can be enabled
• ✓ Fix bug where metadata says "read-only", but the textbox is modifiable
• ✓ Add option to delete encrypted files after decryption

Note: v1.17 will be incompatible with all previous releases!

v1.16 (Released 08/11/2021)

• ✓ Fixed bug when entering a wrong password when decrypting a splitted file
• ✓ Fixed bug where an existing file is delete when a wrong password is used
• ✓ The password generator is now customizable
• ✓ Make keyfile support more reliable (keyfile now out of Beta)
• ✓ Fix keyfile user flow issue
• ✓ Bug fixes
• ✓ UI fixes improvements

v1.15 (Released 08/09/2021)

• ✓ Add cancel button to file shredder and custom number of passes
• ✓ Password generator
• ✓ Make password strength circle start at top
• ✓ Fix shredder UI bugs

v1.14 (Released 08/07/2021)

• ✓ Low-severity security fix for the recently discovered partitioning oracle attacks
• ✓ Move from Monocypher to Go's standard supplemental ChaCha20 in favour of the latter being stateful
• ✓ Add SHA3 (normal mode) and BLAKE2b (fast mode) as HMAC to replace Poly1305 and prevent partitioning oracle attacks
• ✓ Removed ~100 lines of unnecessary code now that Picocrypt uses Go's ChaCha20 (cleaner and stabler code)
• ✓ Added window icons
• ✓ Switch to a new Reed-Solomon encoder that automatically corrects errors
• ✓ Add a "Paranoid mode", which will use the Serpent cipher in addition to XChaCha20
• ✓ Cleaner code with plenty of comments for people taking a look
• ✓ Metadata is now Reed-Solomon encoded (everything bit of header data is now RS-encoded for redundancy)
• ✓ Reed-Solomon checkbox is now enabled and Reed-Solomon works
• ✓ Implemented Dropbox's zxcvbn password strength checker
• ✓ Removed paranoid shredding as it is too hard to implement correctly and not cross platform
• ✓ Fixed Windows zip extract error notice that doesn't appear in 7-Zip (edit: it was a backslash issue)
• ✓ Optional shred temporary files checkbox
• ✓ Remove BLAKE3 from the checksum generator tab, as it has no practical use and requires a non-standard library
• ✓ Advanced options are shown dynamically depending on whether encrypting or decrypting
• ✓ Window closing disabled during encryption/decryption/shredding to prevent leakage of temporary files
• ✓ Reduce padding of metadataLength from 10 to 5 (you probably won't type more than 99999 metadata characters)
• ✓ Use regex to check if an input file is a valid Picocrypt volume or not during decryption
• ✓ Improved user flow as well as fix UI bugs
• ✓ Code optimizations
• ✓ Many bug fixes/stability improvments

Note: v1.14 will be incompatible with all previous releases!

v1.13 (Released 5/29/2021)

• ✓ Picocrypt has been ported from Python to Go, thus completely rewritten
• ✓ Added fast mode, which can achieve ~250MB/s
• ✓ Added file shredder and file checksum generator
• ✓ Automatically checks for newer versions
• ✓ Added file chunking support

Note: v1.13 will be incompatible with all previous releases!

v1.12.1 (Released 04/11/2021)

• ✓ Fixed a bug that caused "Secure wipe" feature to show "Unknown error" when done

v1.12 (Released 04/07/2021)

• ✓ Beautiful UI
• ✓ More than x2 as fast as previous versions
• ✓ Add cancel button to cancel encryption/decryption
• ✓ (Bug) Delete existing file only if password is correct
• ✓ Minor aesthetic fixes
• ✓ Complete rewrite from scratch, to ensure reliability and security
• ✓ Better anti-corruption (re-defined header format)
• ✓ Switch to Argon2d instead Argon2id for better security
• ✓ Switch from SHA3 to BLAKE3 for corruption check
• ✓ Better user flow

Note: v1.12 will be incompatible with all previous releases!

v1.11 (Released 03/23/2021)

• ✓ Much more secure wipe via sdelete64 for Windows, shred for Linux, and rm -P for MacOS
• ✓ Much more beautiful UI for macOS
• ✓ Robust secure wipe support for drag and dropped files/folders
• ✓ Only open input files in read mode, since write mode is unnecessary
• ✓ Clean up source code, add better comments
• ✓ Drag and drop support (multiple files, a folder, a file and a folder, etc.)