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 [...]

Tags: decryption, encryption, GnuPG, gpg, Linux
Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Security, Tutorials Basic

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 [...]

Tags: decryption, encryption, linux. gnupg
Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Security, Tutorials Basic

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 [...]

Tags: encrypting email, encryption, enigmail, Linux, openpgp, pgp, thunderbird
Categories: Advice, Email, Linux, Mac, Open Source, Security, Tutorials Basic, Windows, software

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 [...]

Tags: disk encryption, DriveCrypt, encrypt hard drive, encryption, ghacks Christmas giveaway, hard-drive-encryption
Categories: Windows, software

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 [...]

Tags: data encryption, encryption, my encrypted tunnel, plink, putty, ssh, ssh connection, ssh server, tunnelier, windows software
Categories: Security

GnuPG allows you to encrypt data so only the intended recipient, with a key and a password, can decrypt it. It also provides a mechanism for verifying data is from the person who has claimed to send it. GnuPG can also provide a way for you to securely prevent your files from being opened without [...]

Tags: encryption, gpg, openpgp, pgp, Security
Categories: Open Source, Security, Tools, Tutorials Basic, software

Putting an encrypted partition on an USB drive can be a great way to enhance the safety of data. Several software developers have created solutions to encrypt USB drives. True Crypt for example is a very popular disk encryption tool that can create partitions on USB drives.
Rohos Mini Drive was specifically designed with USB drive [...]

Tags: drive encryption, encrypt usb, encrypt usb drive, encryption, rohos mini drive, Security, true-crypt, usb drive encryption
Categories: Windows, software