Encryption is an interesting thing. The first time I saw encryption in action was on a friend’s Gentoo Linux laptop that could only boot if the USB key with the boot partition and decryption key was ...

The Cloudflare blog has an article on the company's work to improve the performance of Linux disk encryption. "As we can see the default Linux disk encryption implementation has a significant impact ...

Eric Biggers and Paul Crowley were unhappy with the disk encryption options available for Android on low-end phones and watches. For them, it was an ethical issue. Eric said: We believe encryption is ...

I don't compile my own kernel, I use the standard Arch kernels. However, each time pacman (the Arch Linux package manager) has installed a new kernel and rolled a new initrd, I run a small script, ...

Usually I try to write articles that are not aimed at a particular distribution. Although I may give examples assuming a Debian-based distribution, whenever possible, I try to make my instructions ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zettaset, a leading provider of data protection solutions, today announced an expanded collaboration with Red Hat to bring its next generation XCrypt Full Disk ...

Protect your personal files from theft with data encryption. Secure system drives, external USBs, and cloud storage using ...

Like with any industry, the information security industry, more commonly referred to as "cybersecurity," for all its raging debates, has rallied around a small corpus of best practices. One of the ...

Title was also updated to reflect that the flaw allows bypassing disk encryption authentication procedures, not the actual encryption. Encrypted data is safe, but attackers can get root privileges on ...

A security vulnerability discovered in numerous Linux distros potentially puts millions of users at risk. CVE-2016-4484 (Cryptsetup Initrd root Shell) affects the Cryptsetup script that is used to ...

Researchers have discovered a Linux variant of the KillDisk ransomware, which itself is a new addition to the KillDisk disk wiper malware family, previously used only to sabotage companies by randomly ...