Sophos Mobile Encryption Version 2.2 for iOS Release Notes

New in this release

Protecting access to the application with a password
Sophos Mobile Encryption now allows to define an application password that has to be entered to access Sophos Mobile Encryption. An additional recovery password can be generated to reset the application password in the case the password is forgotten.

Upload of encrypted files to the cloud storage providers
Sophos Mobile Encryption is now able to receive and encrypt files from other third-party applications (via open with). The encrypted files are uploaded to a linked cloud storage provider or alternatively stored in an app-internal local storage. The user can select an already used key (when the keychain feature is enabled) or can define a new passphrase from which the encryption key is derived. Furthermore, the user can move files from the local storage to a linked cloud storage provider.

System Requirements

Sophos Mobile Encryption runs on the following platforms:

Compatible devices have to run Apple iOS 5.x or iOS 6.x or iOS 7.x.

Supported Storage Providers

Sophos Mobile Encryption supports following storage providers:

Installation

Installation of the application must be done via the Apple Itunes App Store.

Known Issues

Dropbox Authentication
Once successfully linked to a Dropbox account, no more password input is required to get access to the files in the linked Dropbox. Even if the password for this Dropbox account is changed on another system or via the Dropbox web site, presenting this new password is not required on any of the linked system nor do these systems have to be linked again. In case access to the Dropbox has to be withdrawn reliably (e.g. because a mobile device is lost), the device should be un-linked from the given Dropbox account via the Dropbox web site and thus be no longer allowed to access the data.

File Sync
Files stored on the mobile device are updated automatically whenever modified in the cloud. Some file attributes like the file size and modification date are used to detect any changes. In case a previously encrypted file is encrypted using a different key, the file will not be synchronized to the client. Reason is, that the content of the file remains unchanged, as well as the file's attributes and therefore a sync is not triggered.

Accepting EULA Crash
After installing SME and accepting the EULA, SME might crash once if and only if all available Cloud Service Providers are linked. Restarting the application resolves the problem and prevents future crashes. Reason for this issue is a bug in the iOS code for WebView which can't be fixed by SME.

Possible app crash when uploading a favorite file from local storage to Google Drive where the file already exists

If the user uploads a favorite file to Google Drive that already exists on Google Drive, a crash can occur when the user leaves the upload view via the back button and then interacts with the occuring confirmation dialog. After restarting the app, the upload has to be done again.

Canceling the download of a file may not allow to download it again when the user browses into another folder and comes back to download the one file again

If the user cancels the download of a file and browses to another folder and comes back to the same folder, it might happen that the user cannot start the download of the file again that he canceled before. After starting the download of another file, the one file can be downloaded again.

When file download from cloud storage is stopped because the user navigated to another folder, the same file download cannot be started immediatly after returning back to its folder

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