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 ...

Encrypting files from the command line is simple with gpg. You can use it to encrypt and decrypt files with a password. The command gpg is part of GnuPG. GnuPG stands ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Encrypting files, folders, and drives on your computer means that no one else can make sense of the data they contain without a particular decryption key—which in most cases is a password known only ...

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