Enigmail Encrypting mail in Thunderbird
Apr 30, 2008Combining the Enigmail add-on and the GnuPG encryption software gives Thunderbird users a powerful tool for encrypting and signing email.
more »GnuTLS Version 2.0.0 Released
Sep 07, 2007Version 2.0.0 of the GnuTLS security database improves access to X.509 certificates and adds RSA with SHA-256/384/512 certificates to the crop of supported crypto approaches.
more »CD Encryption Burning CDs and DVDS with an encrypted filesystem
Oct 31, 2006An encrypted hard disk on your server is no help if valuable data on CDs or DVDs falls into the hands of spies. We’ll show you some convenient solutions for encrypting data on removable media.
more »Crypto Tricks Intro Disk-level cryptography in Linux
Oct 31, 2006Today’s computers are fast enough for some very sophisticated cryptography techniques. We’ll show you how to keep your data safe from the prying eyes of snoops and spies.
more »Encrypted Filesystems Shopping for an encrypted filesystem
Oct 31, 2006If you’re not a security expert and you're looking for a crypto filesystem, you may be wondering about the alternatives. We took at a look at some popular crypto options for Linux.
more »DM-Crypt/ LUKS Workshop: Encrypting hard disks with DM-Crypt and LUKS
Oct 31, 2006Encrypting a home directory is easy. Encrypting your whole hard disk – including the root filesystem – takes a little more effort.
more »Anubis Centralized email encryption with Anubis
Jan 31, 2006The Anubis mail manipulation daemon lets you centralize encryption for outgoing mail.
more »DM-Crypt Hard disk encryption with DM-Crypt, LUKS, and cryptsetup
Nov 30, 2005If you’re serious about keeping secrets, try hard disk encryption with DM-Crypt and LUKS.
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