reviewed by Matthew Nawrocki
Product Information:
Title: Sophos Free Encryption
Company: Sophos Ltd.
Product URL: http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-free-encryption.aspx
Supported OS: Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7 and 8
Price: Free
Rating: 5 out of 5
Bottom Line: Sophos delivers an excellent freeware utility for securing document files with sensitive data inside AES encrypted archives. The software is easy to use and offers nice features to boot.
Sophos Free Encryption is a tool that works like a zip program, but with the added aforementioned encryption, which is AES-256-bit for good measure. Digging a bit into this product, I noticed a few niceties that the competition doesn’t really have in the security department, namely in how it handles passwords and the self-extracting archive feature. For a free tool, this beats its competitor SecureZIP by PKWare, which actually costs money to do the same thing. (more)
