Encryption is an interesting thing. The first time I saw encryption in action was on a friend’s Gentoo Linux laptop that could only boot if the USB key with the boot partition and decryption key was ...

Stop your search for an easy way to encrypt and decrypt files in Linux — the built-in gpg tool will do the trick. No matter what you’re doing on your computer, you need to do so with an eye to ...

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 ...

March 2002 was a bad month for advocates of personal cryptography tools. Network Associates officially dropped support for its PGP Desktop products, easily the most popular, mature and useful suite of ...

For users in search of a commercially supported encryption tool for Linux with a backdoor-free guarantee, Jetico recommends its recently updated BestCrypt Container Encryption for Linux 3.0. Jetico's ...

There are numerous commands for encrypting files on Linux. When you want to limit access to file contents, you can use file permissions but file encryption makes limiting access much more effective.