Let's Encrypt is easy to use and free -- no wonder it's the most popular Certificate Authority for securing websites. Here's how you can use it.

In Europe, for example, privacy is deemed to be a basic human right. Even in European countries, however, the debate about encryption is raging, because the right to privacy (which encryption protects ...

Quantum computers powerful enough to break today’s encryption methods pose a serious threat to personal and professional information, from trade secrets to national security files and military ...

The U.S. government announced the U.K. would drop its demand for Apple to provide a "back door" to user data, in a key ...

The use of encryption is as old as the internet itself, but there are two main issues that contribute to the limitation of using end-to-end encryption.

One example is to encrypt the data flow between an email app such as Outlook and the email server such as Microsoft Exchange.

Microsoft has helpfully provided a real-world example showing why mandating "back doors" so that authorities can bypass encryption to access digital data is a very bad idea. The fact that this ...