PAE

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File Format
Name PAE
Ontology
Extension(s) .pae

PAE is an encrypted file container format associated with the PowerArchiver software by ConeXware.

See also PAE2, the successor format.

For more information about PowerArchiver and its other formats, see PA (PowerArchiver).

Identification

Files begin with some ASCII text that starts by naming the encyption algorithm. More research may be needed, but based on PowerArchiver 2017, there are five possibilities:

File begins with... Encryption algorithm
Blowfish Encrypted File Blowfish (128-bit)
DES Encrypted File DES (56-bit)
TripleDES Encrypted File Triple DES (168-bit)
Rijndael Encrypted File Rijndael - AES (128-bit)
AES256 Encrypted File Rijndael - AES (256-bit)

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