Encryption News: Security Protocols, Standards & Privacy Technology

True Crypt 6.1 Released

November 2, 2008

One of the very first articles that was published here at Ghacks was an article about securing a computer with True Crypt.

Secure your files: An introduction to GnuPG

October 15, 2008

GnuPG allows you to encrypt data so only the intended recipient, with a key and a password, can decrypt it.

Comodo Secure Email

October 7, 2008

Although every user on the Internet is using email to communicate, only few encrypt emails or use digital certificates for authentication and verification purpo

Encrypt USB Drives

September 9, 2008

Putting an encrypted partition on an USB drive can be a great way to enhance the safety of data.

Data Can Leak From Partially Encrypted Systems

July 18, 2008

A bunch of researchers, among them the famous Bruce Schneier, have discovered that features like Recent Documents list may reveal information about files on an

True Crypt 6 released

July 7, 2008

True Crypt is my encryption software of choice and I was very pleased with version 5 which added the option to encrypt the complete operating system and increas

Encrypt your instant messages with Pidgin

May 21, 2008

Pidgin is an Open Source multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that was formerly known as Prince Gaim.

Drag and Crypt Ultra

April 12, 2008

Drag and Crypt is a tiny application for Windows NT and newer operating systems that provides the user with a dropzone on the desktop that encrypts and decrypts

Scan a Computer for password protected files

March 13, 2008

Did you ever loose track of all the password protected files on your system ? This happened to me just a few days ago when I was looking for a zip file that a f

Increase True Crypt AES performance

March 7, 2008

I used the new version of True Crypt to encrypt my new external hard drive which has become almost a standard procedure for me to do.

Encrypting an USB Drive with True Crypt

March 1, 2008

My last True Crypt guide dates way back and the purchase of my new shiny 500 Megabyte Maxtor USB drive made me think about writing a new guide that takes the ch

Defeating Disk Encryption

February 25, 2008

I discovered an interesting video at Hack a Day from the University of Princeton demonstrating how to break disk encryption using so called RAM Dumps.

True Crypt 5 adds System Partition Encryption

February 7, 2008

True Crypt 5 has been released yesterday and I'm very pleased with the new features that the developers have added to this awesome encryption tool.

Blowfish Advanced File Encryption and Security Tool

December 14, 2007

Blowfish Advanced manages to provide the user with several security and encryption features that I have not seen before in one utility.

Protect your data from physical access

September 16, 2007

Experts are able to gather sensitive data from your computer if they gain physical access to it.

Encrypt and sign all your Email traffic

April 26, 2007

If you want to make sure that no one is able to eavesdrop on your mail traffic you should use encryption.

Create a secure data safe with True Crypt

March 27, 2007

This article is going to show everyone, even the inexperienced, how to create a data safe that can store as much personal information and files as you want usin

Steganos Locknote standalone text encrypter

January 8, 2007

Most solutions that encrypt files require the installation of encryption software which has to be started again if you want to decrypt the encrypted files.

Create a secure USB Data Safe

October 7, 2006

I'm going to show you how to create a secure usb data safe that can be used to store sensitive data.

How to create a data safe

September 3, 2006

Would you prefer that important data like information about yourself, account numbers, personal documents and the like are accessible all the time from everyone