Update, Feb. 5, 2015, 8:10 p.m.: After this article appeared, Werner Koch informed us that last week he was awarded a one-time grant of $60,000 from Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative.

Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary R. James Nicholson Monday has announced that all VA computers throughout the agency will be upgraded with enhanced data security encryption systems beginning ...

A popular open-source program for encrypted communications has a serious flaw that could let Internet attackers slip into servers running the software, said its creators and a security company this ...

In the wake of the Paris terror attacks, some politicians and intelligence officials began rallying for "back doors" into encrypted messaging apps. On Wednesday, FBI ...

Open-source legend TrueCrypt may be gone, but the usefulness of full disk encryption carries on. So what’s a crypto fan to do now for their encryption needs? The first phase of the TrueCrypt audit ...