In our last episode of Private I, I explained the basics of public-key (PK) cryptography, a way to scramble messages in a way that only someone possessing a particular key can decrypt, without that ...

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 ...

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 ...

MENLO PARK, Calif., April 7 /PRNewswire/ -- PGP Corporation, a global leader in enterprise data protection, today announced PGP(R) Whole Disk Encryption Workgroup Edition, a simple, easy-to-manage ...

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 ...

PGP Corp. has announced the release of a public beta version of PGP Desktop 9.5.0 for Mac OS X — the first Universal binary release of the company’s encryption ...

Anyone using PGP to encrypt their email could have their messages exposed thanks to a severe vulnerability for which there's no proper fix. That's according to researchers in Germany, who said anyone ...

Network Associates Inc. has unloaded its software portfolio based on the security technology PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) to a startup launched Monday by a collection of ...

The man credited with inventing PGP has teamed up with other key developers to assure users that the popular encryption program is not insecure, despite some reports to the contrary earlier this month ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON -- The world's most popular software for scrambling sensitive e-mails suffers from a programming flaw that could allow hackers to attack a user's computer ...