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Encryption is the process of transforming plaintext using a cipher to make it unreadable to anyone except those possessing the key.
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How are the disk encryption keys protected when a laptop is locked?
If you were installing such operating system as Ubuntu, you would have seen an option to encrypt your home directory or the whole hard drive with an AES 256bit cipher.
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How are PGP messages constructed? [closed]
I have recently found that openPGP, the protocol that GnuPG uses, uses a hybrid-cryptosystem by generating a random session key, encrypting the message using that key with a strong, symmetric cipher, …
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Is using PGP/MIME or PGP Inline more secure?
Using Enigmail for Thunderbird, the setup wizard automatically sets itself to PGP/MIME and also disables HTML formatting. I am looking for security and have no idea which to use, though I do know HTML …
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Which host key algorithm is best to use for SSH?
When you first connect to an SSH server that is not contained inside your known_hosts file your SSH client displays the fingerprint of the public key that the server gave. I found from this question h …
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Encrypt symmetric key or message first PGP?
I understand the concept of the hybrid-cryptosystem that OpenPGP uses by generating a random symmetric key, using that to encrypt the message before encrypting itself with the recipient's public key.
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