Windows Phone Thoughts: Tales from Encrypt: SecureNow 2006 v1.00 Reviewed

Encryption
The application has a clean and simple interface. It has an “explorer view” interface similar to Windows explorer, and users can browse their entire device for data on which to operate. Three large buttons provide the ability to respectively encrypt, decrypt, or exit the application.


Figure 4: The application interface.

I initially wanted to try to encrypt an entire folder, but the program explicitly stated that this version would only allow files to be encrypted.


Figure 5: SecureNow v1.0.0 does not work on folders.

Although the ability to encrypt an entire folder would be a useful feature, I navigated to a simple text file (98 bytes in size) on my device to test the program’s file encryption capability.


Figure 6: The Contents of the text file before encryption.

I pressed the encrypt button which brought up a screen to enter a password for the file.


Figure 7: The Password Entry screen prompts for a encryption password.

It prompted me for a password. It’s important to note that this password is for the session and not just for this file. By that, I mean that all files encrypted will have the same password assigned to them (i.e., you cannot specify a password for each file). I supplied one and clicked submit. The application urged that I remember this password.


Figure 8: Reminder to remember the password.

After clicking “ok”, I was informed that my encryption attempt was a success!


Figure 9: Success!