As kids, we had our own secret codes and words that we used to communicate when outsiders were around. That was a basic from of cryptography. Computer users today have sophisticated tools at their disposal to encrypt messages, so that only they and designated recipients can understand those messages. Scambled Egg is an Open Source [...]

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Recently I wrote an article about Encrypting and decrypting files with GnuPG. This article described how to encrypt single files in with the help of gpg. But what happens if you have a directory full of files? Sure you can tar the directory up and encrypt the files  as a single file. But that isn’t [...]

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Are you paranoid? Are you afraid that someone is going to get ahold of data they sholdn’t have? I am. And because of that I often encrypt files with a gpg key that was given to no one. With those encrypted files I know they are secure to most of the general public. And because [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Security, Tutorials Basic