The results are in! Thank you to all who participated. It is, after all, your participation which enables helping those seeking knowledge of these tools .. allowing them to narrow choices to popular products.
One note on the encryption poll results -- an awareness that because of the "numerous" possible selections in this poll, resulting numbers are lower than in polls with fewer selections.
Here's results from our 2009 Preferred Encryption and Password Software POLL
Results are reported into TWO categories:
• Password Management Software
• System Level Encryption Software (including tools for encryption of entire disk partitions) and File Level Encryption Software (including tools used to encrypt email communications) results are combined.
There were 129 participants casting 326 votes in this poll.
The NUMBER ONE vote for 2009 was: "No Encryption Program Used" 29 votes (8.8%)
• Password Management Software
FIRST - KeePass - 28 votes (8.5%)
SECOND - RoboForm - 19 votes (5.8%)
THIRD - A three-way tie between Password Safe - 9 votes (2.7%) | Secure Login (Firefox extension) - 9 votes (2.7%) | No Password Manager Used - 9 votes (2.7%)
Additional Votes: PINs Secure Password Manager - 4 votes (1.2%) | Opera's Wand - 4 votes (1.2%) | LastPass - 4 votes (1.2%) | I Use Paper - 3 votes (0.9%)
• System Level Encryption Software (including tools for encryption of entire disk partitions) and File Level Encryption Software (including tools used to encrypt email communications)
FIRST - TrueCrypt - 28 votes (8.5%)
SECOND - 7Zip - 16 votes (4.9%)
THIRD - WinRAR - 14 votes (4.2%)
Additional Votes:
•AxCrypt - 10 votes (3.0%)
•GnuPGP - 6 votes (1.8%)
•WinZip - 5 votes (1.5%)
•PGP Whole Disk Encryption5 votes (1.5%)
Software NOT included in this 2009 poll, that users voted OTHER for includes:
•PowerArchiver 2009
•Password Safe (original)
•SecureIT
•Cryptext
•ABI-CODER
•Thornsoft's ClipMate
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