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.

How to Encrypt a File Using OpenSSL. Secure Sockets Layer is a network communication protocol that provides security for data at the transmission level.

Have a private document on your desktop OS? Here's how to keep it secure on Linux, MacOS, and Windows.

For the purposes of our roundup, we're focusing on desktop file encryption tools - the ones you use on your own computer to encrypt your own private data, not cloud services that promise to ...

If Windows struggles to open JPG files, here are a few things you can do.