Like many Internet addicts, I have way too many user name/password accounts to remember: accounts on social-networking sites, rarely used logins at work, on-line banking and so on. One solution to ...

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 ...

Ten years after Phil Zimmermann released PGP v.1.0 (Pretty Good Privacy), PGP has evolved from an underground tool for paranoiacs to the gold standard, even an ...

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.

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 ...

An updated GnuPG package that fixes a security issue is now available. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. 2. Relevant ...

Topic ===== Format string vulnerability in gnupg. Problem Description ===== GnuPG contains a format string vulnerability which can be triggered simply by attempting to decrypt a file with a specially ...