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 ...

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 ...

Federal court orders defendant accused of having illegal data on his laptop to type in his PGP passphrase so prosecutors can access decrypted files.

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 ...

Since acquiring PGP, Symantec has released secure file-sharing with Dropbox in what it calls its File Share Encryption integration with Dropbox.

There's currently no fix for the critical flaws in PGP and S/MIME that could reveal plaintext of encrypted email. Users are advised to disable PGP plug-ins and not to use decryption in email clients.

Dunno if there's a theoretical limit on the archive size, but I just turned a 1.97Gb Ghost image into a self-decrypting archive, then decrypted it and checked that Ghost Explorer could still read ...