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 ...

You probably have documents on your desktop operating system that contain sensitive information. So what do you do to protect that data? You could hide the document in an obscure folder -- but that's ...

Last month I introduced the GNU Privacy Guard, a free but underutilized implementation of the OpenPGP encryption standards. GnuPG is, as you may know, extremely ...

The gpg flags --export and --gen-revoke are examples of gpg commands; they tell gpg what to do. To tell gpg how to do things, you can often precede your commands with options. Both --armor and ...

If you work on headless Linux servers, you might want to have a command-line password storage tool. Jack Wallen shows you how to use GnuPG and pass for this purpose. How many times have you been ...