In 2015, as part of the wave of encrypting all the things on the internet, encouraged by the Edward Snowden revelations, Facebook announced that it would allow users to receive encrypted emails from ...

In today’s world of constant surveillance and daily data breaches, it’s never been more important to take control of your own privacy. Whether you’re protecting your emails, securing sensitive files, ...

MOST E-MAIL IS vulnerable—it can be read by computer-savy snoops and even tampered with. THERE ARE WAYS TO make your e-mail more secure—at least to the extent that no one can intercept it and read it.

Last week, we highlighted email encryption’s ability to protect sensitive information — social security numbers, trade secrets, and banking info — and walked you through a step-by-step guide on ...

PGP is based on the public-key encryption method, which uses two keys: One is a public key that the user disseminates to anyone from whom he wants to receive a message; the other is a private key used ...

So I am wondering, is PGP/GPG still the best standard for general purpose pubic key cryptography, in 2025? * Pro: Standard that's been around a long time, so there is widespread tool/app support (e.g.

It all started in 1991, when Phil Zimmermann released Pretty Good Privacy, providing powerful encryption, signing and authentication capabilities as freeware. The ...

Although I’ve yet to see the one product that can encrypt data on all OSes and media, PGP’s suite of encryption products offers a competitive enterprise solution to protect a variety of content on ...

Every webpage you visit is encrypted in transit, and you get a nasty error message if you go to a page that doesn't have the magic https leading off its URL. Your ...