The encryption used by popular several disk encryption systems such as Apple’s Filevault, the Bitlocker feature in Windows Vista, TrueCrypt or dm-crypt is not that secure after all.
That is the conclusion of researchers of Princeton University and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The flaw is actually a design limitation in the current way disk encryption systems [...]

If you are a geek like me or just a privacy aware person you’re probably using encryption to secure your communications. If not, you really should get started…
There are lots of tools to make using encryption easier. One popular and well known tool is Seahorse, a powerful GnuPG frontend from Gnome.
Another great piece of software [...]

I don’t think there’s any geek that hasn’t read (or at least knows about) the novel 1984. The literary work of George Orwell tells the story of Winston Smith, a citizen of the futuristic nation Oceania. Winston lives under the constant watch of Big Brother. No doubt many of you are more familiar with the [...]

According to this Article over at Ars Technica, the UK government can now demand that you hand over your encryption keys or provide full access to the decrypted data. Up to 5 years in jail if you fail to comply with police or military orders to release your encryption keys or your data in [...]

LUKS, or Linux Unified Key Setup, is becoming the standard for Linux hard disk encryption. I probably don’t need to tell you about the benefits of hard disk encryption (there are plenty of reports on Slashdot about stolen laptops that contain sensitive data), but here is a good tutorial on how to use LUKS to [...]

In this article I’ll help you get started with GnuPG, the GNU Privacy Guard. Instead of writing another GnuPG manual, I’ll teach you how to generate your first keypair, sign/verify files and encrypt/decrypt files.

If you don’t know what GnuPG is, this description from the official website will clear things up for you.
GnuPG is the GNU [...]