In our previous installment in the encryption series, we looked at how you could encrypt your files using PGP. Apps that use the PGP technology have several advantages over other encryption ...

IIRC, with PGP there is a "session key" that's generated on the fly, encrypted using the public keys of the sender and receiver, then sent along with the message.

Late Friday, last week, Google announced a new tool for security-minded users, called E2EMail, a Chrome extension that simplifies the installation of PGP encryption for Gmail.

If you’re new to PGP and want something simple, Keybase.io is the way to go. It’s a free, easy-to-use platform that integrates PGP encryption with a sleek interface, making it accessible for beginners ...

How to Open Encrypted Files. Microsoft Windows' built-in encryption utility is designed to protect files from being open, read or modified by other users and computers. As this encryption utility ...

They say, "send me your public key". I do send them said key, and they send me back a PGP encrypted file. When I go to open it, PGP complains an tells me that I lack the private keys to open the file.

PGP runs into problems when it tries to encrypt or decrypt files that have names longer than 200 characters. When PGP attempts to decrypt the files, a buffer overflow causes it to crash.

Say you're encrypting an external drive, for example: With the drive plugged in and formatted, open VeraCrypt and choose Create Volume. Next, select Encrypt a non-system partition/drive and select ...

GnuPG, the open replacement for PGP, is an excellent tool to manage cryptographic signatures to files or e-mails for validity and integrity, as well as a tool to encrypt and decrypt sensitive files.

You may think that encrypting your sensitive files with, say, PGP may protect your data - but you'd be wrong. Most encryption formats leak a lot of plaintext metadata, and that's a problem. Here's ...