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 ...

I've been looking around the internet for an example that shows how to encrypt a file with an existing PGP public key that was sent to me. The examples I find generate the key pair on the fly and ...

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.

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.

Users without PGP NetShare can copy files into protected folders, but those files are not encrypted until an authorized user modifies the file or re-encrypts the folder.

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 ...

Now, of course, your recipients have to go through the same procedure, or use other compatible PGP software. Symantec still makes PGP, although it works on the Mac only with Microsoft Outlook.

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 ...

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 ...