Anyone using FTP or SFTP to connect to their Web site or other servers should consider a tweaky but significant security upgrade that swaps passwords for encryption keys.

GnuPG, or GPG, is a free implementation of the OpenPGP standard. It allows you to encrypt and sign your data and communications. It features a versatile key management system and access modules for ...

The file data is then encrypted with a symmetric algorithm called as DESX. Encrypting File System (EFS) The key used for these kinds of symmetric encryption is called as File Encryption Key (or FEK).

These encryption keys are small in size but powerful when it comes to protecting your files. None of your data is housed on external sites or in clouds, so it’s just for you at all times.

Although encrypting your cloud data may not prevent tech giants from your privacy, you can protect your personal information from hackers and malware attacks.

Another obvious drawback of FBE is that managing numerous encryption keys is not always practical. This burden is easily alleviated by encryption key management tools and services, but this also means ...

I’ve been involved with multiple projects with file encryption lately, and even though I’ve been assisting with data encryption projects for years, I’m still learning something new every day ...

New Windows devices have disk encryption turned on by default. But what happens to your recovery key?