One of the oldest still-working protocols on the Internet is FTP (File Transfer Protocol). Designed in the net’s earliest days, FTP never concerned itself with security. Later standards addressed this ...

The key used for these kinds of symmetric encryption is called as File Encryption Key (or FEK). This FEK is in return encrypted with a public or a private key algorithm like RSA and stored with the ...

If you back up both your data and your encryption key, your files should remain safely accessible to you (and only you). Open ...

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’ve been involved with multiple projects with file encryption lately, and even though I’ve been assisting with data encryption projects for years, I’m still learning something new every day. They say ...

If you keep a lot of valuable information on your Mac, encrypting it will help you keep the data safe. Apple’s built-in FileVault disk encryption on macOS is an effective way to do this. But what ...

Curious about the security of your documents in the cloud? You’re not alone. We recently received an email from Dana in Marietta, Ga., who is asking this, "I just read your article on saving documents ...