A Gentle Introduction to Cryptography
With the increasing incidence of identity thefts, credit card frauds, social engineering attacks, the digital world is facing challenges in…
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File and Email Encryption with GnuPG (PGP) Part Six
Last time I showed you how to exchange and verify public PGP keys with an individual. After you've verified a…
File and Email Encryption With GnuPG (PGP) Part Four
GnuPG and other PGP implementations allow you to encrypt (scramble the data so only intended recipients can read it) and/or…
File and Email Encryption with GnuPG (PGP), Part Two
Jumping right in, let's create our PGP public/private key pair. I'll use GnuPG, the Gnu Privacy Guard, available at http://www.gnupg.org,…
SSL: Myths and Magic
About once a week we get asked if we use SSL certificates. The answer may come as a surprise to…
Random Numbers
Random numbers are important for computers. Aside from making games like Solitaire more interesting, the use of randomness in generating…
The Secure Socket Layer
What is SSL? SSL, or Secure Socket Layer, is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) approved protocol designed by Netscape…
Introduction to Cryptography
Secret messaging has been in vogue since the times of Julius Caesar. But later, this art of communicating messages in…
