TrueCrypt is one of the most popular Open Source disk encryption software programs for the Windows operating system. It can be used to encrypt entire hard disks, partitions and to create encrypted containers on hard disks that have a specific size defined by the user. Some of the latest features that have been added include [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Sep 27th, 2009
- Comments: 1
Add CryptKeeper for on-the-fly encrypted folders in Linux
You’ve more than likely read Martins’ piece about the outstanding encryption tool Truecrypt “TrueCrypt 6.1 Released” and have used it to create easy to use, encrypted file systems on Windows machines. Of course TrueCrypt is also available for Linux as well. But what if I told you there was an even easier system to use [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jun 3rd, 2009
- Comments: 3
Recursively encrypt directories with gpgdir
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 [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: May 30th, 2009
- Comments: 3
Linux tips: Encrypting and decrypting files from command line with gpg
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 [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Mar 1st, 2009
- Comments: 7
Encrypt Thunderbird Email with Enigmail
Sometimes email contains sensitive data which must be encrypted. You can handle this two ways, manually encrypt the data or use an exceptional Thunderbird Extension called Enigmail. This extension uses gpg and makes the encryption/decryption as user-friendly as it gets. With keys installed in Enigmail (either manually or from a keyserver) encrypted email is automatically [...]
Ghacks Christmas Giveaway: DriveCrypt
This is the first day of the second half of the Ghacks Christmas Giveaway. You can expect the same quality in the coming twelve days. We made lots of Ghacks readers happy by sending them licenses to commercial software products that we personally love and can fully recommend to anyone. Today’s software was donated by [...]
My Encrypted Tunnel
My Encrypted Tunnel is a basic System Tray application that can be installed as a Windows Service to establish and maintain TCP SSH tunnels. Here is a short explanation of what SSH tunnels are and why they might be useful. If you connect normally to the Internet it is not difficulty for someone else to [...]
