Werner Koch, who authored the popular Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG) email encryption software and has been maintaining the code since its initial development in 1997, is ...

You’d be forgiven for thinking that the tech world is a loathsome hotbed of rapacious venture capitalists, airheaded trend-riders, and publicity hounds. That’s the image presented by much of the tech ...

Ten years after Phil Zimmermann released PGP v.1.0 (Pretty Good Privacy), PGP has evolved from an underground tool for paranoiacs to the gold standard, even an ...

In this guide, I will explain the options at your disposal for encrypting files using open-source software on a Linux, Mac, or Windows computer. You can then transport this digital information across ...

If I've downloaded something from a first party website (e.g. the main gnupg project website) OR a highly trusted third party (like, for example, a well known Linux distro site like debian, ubuntu, ...

Up to the late 1990s, encryption software (like GPG) was restricted by the US government under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations. It was illegal for people in the United States to send ...