Message privacy, increasingly important to Bitcoiners, can be achieved with public and private key cryptography. As a Bitcoiner, you’re going to need a secure way to communicate privately, without ...

There are many reasons to encrypt files — even on a system that is well maintained and comparatively secure. The files may highly sensitive, contain personal information that you don’t want to share ...

Encryption is one of the pillars of modern-day communications. You have devices that use encryption all the time, even if you are not aware of it. There are so many applications and systems using it ...

I’ve only recently been motivated to encrypt a small portion of my email. Though I’ve been familiar with various encryption methods for a long time and PGP in particular, I found that I had to step ...

Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from chapter 11, "Keeping Your Data Private", of Peter van der Linden's Guide to Linux, published August 2005 by Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-187284-2. In Part 1 ...

I had an encryption class in college, and I understand that in traditional PKI the message is encrypted with the public key and decrypted with the private key (for encrypting files to ...

If you use GPG keys, learn about the benefits to storing them on a smart card. GPG has been around for a long time and is used to secure everything from your email to your software. If you want to ...

GPG Suite, an application that brings encrypted email to Mac OS, is now available in public beta for Sierra. The software package had been compatible up to El Capitan but wasn’t working with Sierra, ...