Stop your search for an easy way to encrypt and decrypt files in Linux -- the built-in gpg tool will do the trick.

Encrypting folders prevents unauthorized access to its containing files and secures them behind a password. VeraCrypt is a free, open-source tool that can create encrypted folders on Linux in a ...

Have a private document on your desktop OS? Here's how to keep it secure on Linux, MacOS, and Windows.

Most Linux users know vim as a text editor that descended from vi. It can also function as a tool for encrypting text files. In this post, we examine how this is done and how to reverse the process.

Researchers have exploited a flaw in the encryption procedure used by the Linux.Encoder.1 - the first ransomware targeting the Linux platform - to develop a decryption tool for victims.

Encryption commands such as gpg can be used to secure your most sensitive files on Linux systems.

After reverse-engineering the RansomExx Linux encryptor, Profero discovered that the problematic decryption was caused by Linux files not being adequately locked while they were encrypted.

Encrypting Files To encrypt a file for yourself, you can use symmetric encryption: gpg --symmetric filename To encrypt for someone else, use their public key: gpg --encrypt --recipient [email] ...

The encrypted files are stored within the existing filesystem, and metadata headers are added to each file, storing encryption information such as the file encryption key, which is itself encrypted ...