Google has recently taken a large amount of criticism for capturing unencrypted wireless network traffic as part of its Street View project. Google admitted to the world that although it was only looking to capture station MAC addresses it inadvertently also captured the payload data. Many articles have emerged blasting Google [...]
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About EncFS EncFS is an encrypted filesystem based on FUSE. It transparently encrypts files stored in it and places them on another volume. This is in contrast to block level encrypted filesystems which transparently encrypt the data under the filesystem layer as it is being written to disk. Think of EncFS as a bind mount, except [...] So you have your keys all set up, you’ve found a dozen people to sign them and you’ve entered the web of trust. Now you have an extremely confidential file, let’s say your tax records, and you want to send them to your accountant. The first step is to find your accountants key. You know from [...] Yesterday you may have read my GPG Symmetric Encryption Guide. The last tip on that page was that you should setup GPG keys and publish them on a keyserver. I say this because publishing GPG keys allows you to encrypt things for anyone else who has published their GPG keys without contacting them and exchanging [...] I often come into a situation where I have to exchange some important confidential file with somebody who doesn’t have GPG keys setup. Explaining how to setup keys can be a pain, especially if you believe that the user will lose them or simply forget how to use them. There are all manner of propriety [...] |
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