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.

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).

I’ve been involved with multiple projects with file encryption lately, and even though I’ve been assisting with data encryption projects for years, I’m still learning something new every day ...

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.

Although encrypting your cloud data may not prevent tech giants from your privacy, you can protect your personal information from hackers and malware attacks.

Now, as for recovering a FileVault-encrypted drive that’s been reformatted so that you could, say, use a recovery key, the odds seem to be me about zero.