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 ...

GnuPG, or GPG, is a free implementation of the OpenPGP standard. It allows you to encrypt and sign your data and communications. It features a versatile key management system and access modules for ...

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 ...

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.

You probably have documents on your desktop operating system that contain sensitive information. So what do you do to protect that data? You could hide the document in an obscure folder -- but that's ...

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 ...

Also: I'm a Linux power user, and this distro made me rethink what an operating system can be That starts with robust security and ends with smart, preventative behavior on the part of the user.