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 ...

GnuPG, the open replacement for PGP, is an excellent tool to manage cryptographic signatures to files or e-mails for validity and integrity, as well as a tool to encrypt and decrypt sensitive files.

Encrypting files from the command line is simple with gpg. You can use it to encrypt and decrypt files with a password. The command gpg is part of GnuPG. GnuPG stands ...

The command is as follows: $ gpg -a --recipient [email protected] --encrypt myinfo.txt The new output file will be the input file name plus the extension ".asc" . A printable ASCII output file might be ...

Encryption is an interesting thing. The first time I saw encryption in action was on a friend’s Gentoo Linux laptop that could only boot if the USB key with the boot partition and decryption key was ...

mint@mint $ sudo gpg -o /my/file.encrypted -z 0 -v -c /my/file gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership on configuration file `/home/mint/.gnupg/gpg.conf' gpg: gpg-agent is not ...

In an age of smartphones and social networking, e-mail may strike many as quaint. But it remains the vehicle that millions of people use every day to send racy love letters, confidential business ...