Encryption

Using GnuPG

March 25, 2008

NOTE: This section was originally written by Vincent Danen as a piece for the MandrakeSecure website. GnuPG, the GNU Privacy Guard, is the open source equivalent to PGP, or Pretty Good Privacy, which has been available for Windows, DOS, and some other operating systems for many …

Personal Privacy and Encryption

March 25, 2008

Your data is your data. What belongs to you should stay with you, until you choose to give it away. Your personal data shouldn’t be subject to theft. It’s for this reason that banks use SSL on their websites; to protect your data in transit. Obviously, banking online …

Encrypted DMG Files in OS X

March 25, 2008

Making an encrypted DMG file (a mountable filesystem that most software for the Mac is distributed with) is extremely simple. The ability to mount these filesystems comes with the OS, using the Disk Copy application. There are many ways of creating an encrypted DMG file in OS X; …