The Internet Security Research Group and its Let's Encrypt project -- a free, automated and open security certificate authority -- wants to make the Internet securer than it is today.

America Online releases a version of AIM that offers client-to-client encryption. The company also unveils a gateway that lets firms decode encrypted IMs leaving their servers.

A new security audit has found critical vulnerabilities in VeraCrypt, an open-source full-disk encryption program that's the direct successor to the widely popular, but now defunct, TrueCrypt.

The program started in 2000, pre-9-11 times when encryption tools really started to spread on the web. Since that time they have been secretly working to undermine most encryption technology.

TrueCrypt’s a free, open-source encryption program available for Windows, OS X and Linux that can be used to encrypt individual folders and whole disk drives alike.

The computer encryption program follows the award of a $3.7 million contract August 11 to SMS, Incorporated, a service-disabled, veteran-owned small business located in Syracuse, New York.

Great good God. It seems that having an encryption program on your computer has the potential to become evidence that you are doing something illegal. My old colleague Declan McCullagh has written ...