RSA keys are typically 512, 768, or 1,024 bits long: the longer the key, the stronger the encryption. With 1,024-bit keys, the encryption is not practically breakable by brute-force methods — there ...

Despite a lot of criticism about its lack of communication on security issues, Apple does a lot to keep Mac OS X as secure as possible. Apple releases fairly frequent security updates to Mac OS X, ...

Adobe has earned mockery after accidentally posting its private PGP key on the firm's official security blog. Last week, Adobe's product security incident response team (PSIRT) accidentally published ...

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 ...

You can now instruct Facebook to encrypt every email it sends to you so nobody — not even the NSA — is likely to be able to read your messages anytime soon. All you have to do is import your public ...

Filippo Valsorda is an engineer on the Cloudflare Cryptography team, where he's deploying and helping design TLS 1.3, the next revision of the protocol implementing HTTPS. He also created a Heartbleed ...

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 ...

Under the terms of the agreement, Symantec will purchase PGP for approximately $300 million in cash, and GuardianEdge for about $70 million in cash. The deal is expected to close some time during June ...

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