When Edward Snowden wanted to contact filmmaker Laura Poitras to blow the whistle on activities at the NSA, his first step was to find out her public PGP key. PGP ...

PGP is used for encrypting various kinds of data - including emails A widely used method of encrypting emails has been found to suffer from a serious vulnerability ...

How do you know someone is really who they say they are? In developer and security circles, you do it with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) keys. Or, you used to anyway. If ...

Being able to communicate without fear of prying eyes and ears intercepting could literally mean the difference between life and death for journalists uncovering corruption in high places, campaigners ...

Encryption software vendor PGP Corporation has announced that plans to move into identity management services. Speaking to ZDNet UK on Wednesday, Phil Dunkelberger, chief executive officer of PGP ...

The National Security Agency has been known to intercept and collect emails, and with Donald Trump as president, privacy likely isn’t going to get better. For example, he said that Apple should help ...

Your emails aren’t as private as you think. PGP encryption lets you secure messages, protect sensitive files, and keep prying eyes—hackers or governments—out of your business. Here’s how to start ...

MIT distributed it as freeware in the early 1990s. The U.S. government tried for five years to keep it from being exported. Network Associates bought it back in March ...

We live in a post-Snowden world. For many, that means assuming none of your digital assets are safe from surveillance. There are ways, however, to use the internet and insane mathematics in your favor ...

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 ...