Viewing information about files

Both encrypted files (with suffix ".eaes") and key files (with suffix ".eaes-key") contain metadata that can be viewed through the context menu.

To view the file metadata, right click on it and select the option from the context menu "EAESCrypt" and then "View the file info" (for encrypted files) or "View the key file info" (for key files). This will open a console window showing the metadata of the file.

This is the way you can find out, for example, which key has been used to encrypt a certain file. The encrypted file metadata has the parameter KEY-ID, which contains the identifier of the key used.

The typical metadata that is returned for a file are:

DATA SIZE: The size of the data file;
CREATED-BY: The program that generated this file;
CREATED-DATE: The date this file has been generated (UTC time);
CREATED-TIME: The time this file has been generated (UTC time);
FILE-CONTENT: The contents type of the file;
FILE-NAME: The original name of the file;
FILE-MIME-TYPE: The file MIME-Type;
UUID: The Universally Unique Identifier of the file;
KEY-ID: The identifier of the key used to encrypt this file;
KEY-INDEX: The index of the key used to encrypt this file;
METHOD: The encryption method used;
SHA-256: The SHA-256 hash of the file data.

Remember that a file may not contain every of these metadata. To secure the file data, some of these metadata are encrypted together with the file and are not shown by this command.