How to easily encrypt/decrypt a file in Linux with gpg Your email has been sent Stop your search for an easy way to encrypt and decrypt files in Linux -- the built-in gpg tool will do the trick. No ...

If you work keeps you at the command line, or you just prefer terminal windows to heavier apps, pwd.sh gives you a way to manage your passwords in a secure, encrypted local container. Of course, it’s ...

There are many reasons to encrypt files — even on a system that is well maintained and comparatively secure. The files may highly sensitive, contain personal information that you don’t want to share ...

Encryption scares a lot of people – me included – because it’s based on really complicated mathematics. Thankfully, the state of encryption software has advanced sufficiently in the last couple of ...

You probably have documents on your desktop operating system that contain sensitive information. So what do you do to protect that data? You could hide the document in an obscure folder -- but that's ...

This article, Protect your data with these five Linux encryption tools, originally appeared on TechRepublic.com. If you think data is more precious than ever, you should certainly consider its ...

Last month I introduced the GNU Privacy Guard, a free but underutilized implementation of the OpenPGP encryption standards. GnuPG is, as you may know, extremely ...

If you work on headless Linux servers, you might want to have a command-line password storage tool. Jack Wallen shows you how to use GnuPG and pass for this purpose. How many times have you been ...

One of the concerns I've always had with my Linux desktop was with the fact that I had a copy of my GPG key on the desktop so I could use it for my email. Of course, my key was password-protected, but ...