If you’ve read anything about technology in the last few years, you may have seen the term “encryption” floating around. It’s a simple concept, but the realities of its use are enormously complicated.

Encryption is a term that many of us have come across, but what does it mean? To put it simply, encryption is the encoding of information. Various online services use it to keep your data private and ...

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The problem with encrypted data is that you must decrypt it in order to work with it. By doing so, it’s vulnerable to the very things you were trying to protect it from by encrypting it. There is a ...

Windows 11 is gaining anew, hardware accelerated BitLocker encryption capability on new devices starting next year.

Encryption is the process of converting readable data into a coded format that is only accessible by someone with the proper key or password. At its core, encryption ensures privacy and security by ...

Curious about the security of your documents in the cloud? You’re not alone. We recently received an email from Dana in Marietta, Ga., who is asking this, "I just read your article on saving documents ...

You’ve probably seen the phrase "end-to-end encrypted" on various messaging services and webpages before, and you may have an intuitive sense of what it means. The idea is that nobody but you and the ...

Your iPhone or Mac, when configured correctly, will keep all but the worst bad actors out of your data. This also means the good guys can't see your data either, and government agencies are not so ...