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If you don’t have the time or wish to download, install and configure PGP-based software application for email encryption, there’s an easier solution available for you. HushMail offers a free, web-based email service that has a built-in support for PGP email encryption.
All encryption and decryption is done on-the-fly and completely transparent to you. You can [...]
Suppose you need to access your email from an insecure environment, such as an open wireless hotspot or an airport. When using a public (insecure) network, the potential security risk is that your valuable data can be sniffed by bad guys.
While majority of free e-mail providers, such as Google GMail and Yahoo! do provide options [...]
Suppose you’re at an open wireless hotspot and wish to connect the Samba server from your Windows laptop, but you don’t want to send data (documents, authentication hashes etc.) over the air in plain text.
Using SSH tunnels, you can encrypt all your network traffic and redirect it through a trusted computer when you’re connected to [...]
When you tell Firefox to remember your user-name and password to a login service, it encrypts the access credentials and stores them in a database file in your profile directory. Yet, anyone can open Firefox’s password manager and view your secure login credentials.
In order to keep prying eyes out of your login information, one can [...]
mod_auth_openpgp is an Apache module that adds support for OpenPGP signed HTTP requests. It allows web site owners to add an extra access authorization level to servers, virtual hosts and directors based on valid and known signatures.
ClipperZ is a JavaScript cryptographic library that lets web developers use extensive and efficient set of cryptographic functions. The library aims to obtain maximum execution speed while preserving modularity and re-usability. The library presently includes: SRP authentication protocol, SHA2 hash functions, AES symmetric encryption and Fortuna PRNG. The developers plan to add support for elliptic [...]
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