But, you say, whats then the use of AxCrypt if anyone can walk up to my PC and just double-click?
Under the heading Security, sub-heading Local PC Security you will find a discussion about what is needed to protect your PC locally, and why. The important thing for this discussion is: If anyone can walk up to your PC and it’s not protected by a password-protected screen-saver you have no protection anyway! All that is needed for a would-be attacker is access to a PC with for example a diskette or CD-drive, a USB-port or an Internet connection, and it’s a few seconds work to install a key-logger or a trojan. Do not trust a PC that has been left unattended and unprotected. The second reason for the passphrase cache is that if you do not need to enter it every time, you may actually find it reasonable to use a longer and stronger passphrase than otherwise, thus increasing security. Of course, if you still don’t like it, just uncheck the checkbox ‘Remember this for decryption’. It’s ‘sticky’, so you’ll just have to do it once. You can also manually clear the passphrase cache from either
