I’ve been using various incarnations of PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) encryption software for almost as long as I’ve been a Mac user. I won’t go into PGP’s long ...

Software company Network Associates has stopped marketing its PGP e-mail encryption software, a further sign that privacy products are a tough sell. The Santa Clara ...

About a year and a half ago, I reviewed the initial release of PGP Whole Disk Encryption (WDE) for Mac (see “Securing Your Disk with PGP Whole Disk Encryption,” 31 October 2008). At the time, this ...

PGP Corp. is setting out to do what Network Associates couldn't--entice enterprise customers to buy PGP encryption products by making them easier to use. On Monday ...

NEW YORK -- I'm well aware that sending e-mail is no more private than sending a postcard, but who wants to bother with protecting messages? It's so inconvenient. So, too lazy to phone, I e-mail ...

The inventor of Pretty Good Privacy e-mail encryption last week left Network Associates, Inc. — the company he joined after selling it the rights to PGP in 1997 ...

A team of security researchers have demonstrated that common disk encryption technologies that are intended to keep data on computers safe from theft can be bypassed if an attacker gets a hold of the ...

One of the questions I'm frequently asked is: "If perimeter-based data-security strategies are breaking down, why aren't more companies using encryption to protect their confidential information?" ...

Philip Zimmermann, the inventor of the PGP encryption system he designed in the early 1990s, has joined the StartPage search engine, which allows people to privately search Google results. StartPage ...

A team of researchers in Europe uncovered a way to pull the plain text from emails secured with PGP and S/MIME encryption. But not everyone agrees on the severity of the threat. When he's not battling ...

According to the IT security vendor, the Whole Disk Encryption approval was granted by the INFOSEC Product Co-operation Group (DIPCOG) and comes just a few months after PGP's Whole Disk Encryption ...

Three years ago, Ars declared the SHA1 cryptographic hash algorithm officially dead after researchers performed the world’s first known instance of a fatal exploit known as a "collision" on it. On ...