Encrypting files from the command line is simple with gpg. You can use it to encrypt and decrypt files with a password. The command gpg is part of GnuPG. GnuPG stands ...

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 ...

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 ...

I’ve only recently been motivated to encrypt a small portion of my email. Though I’ve been familiar with various encryption methods for a long time and PGP in particular, I found that I had to step ...