Anyone using FTP or SFTP to connect to their Web site or other servers should consider a tweaky but significant security upgrade that swaps passwords for encryption keys.

Another obvious drawback of FBE is that managing numerous encryption keys is not always practical. This burden is easily alleviated by encryption key management tools and services, but this also means ...

The file data is then encrypted with a symmetric algorithm called as DESX. Encrypting File System (EFS) The key used for these kinds of symmetric encryption is called as File Encryption Key (or FEK).

Encryption commands such as gpg can be used to secure your most sensitive files on Linux systems.

Kleopatra is a free encryption and signing tool that uses OpenPGP standards. The tool also doubles up as a certificate manager that can create and store OpenPGP and X.509 keys.

Does including the key in the file itself reduce the security of the encrypted file?<BR><BR>2. Add a known sequence to the start of the file -- like "Hello World".

Chances are that Microsoft automatically encrypted your PC during setup. But don’t worry—that key should be safely stored. Here’s where to find it.