If you keep a lot of valuable information on your Mac, encrypting it will help you keep the data safe. Apple’s built-in FileVault disk encryption on macOS is an effective way to do this. But what ...

In the digital age, protecting data has become paramount. Even everyday people have a critical need for protecting their information, and one way that's done is end-to-end encryption, often ...

Encryption is a tricky business. You'll run into terms like TLS, zero-knowledge, and end-to-end encryption, which have discrete meanings with important differences. Proton Mail, one of the most secure ...

The whole concept of encryption once intimidated me with all those technical terms flying around. But after diving in and actually trying it myself, I discovered that encryption is surprisingly simple ...

Yes, having the support of a foundation helps, but more important is a solid technological solution to a recognized problem. Foundations have a hit-or-miss success rate in software, generally, and ...

Let's Encrypt has been providing free "wildcard" certificates for websites for nearly seven years, enabling HTTPS connections for millions of domains and doing the whole Internet a real solid. Now the ...

If you use the best secure messaging apps like Signal or WhatsApp, you may have seen that messages you send on these apps are protected by end-to-end encryption. End-to-end encryption (or E2EE) is a ...

WhatsApp just unleashed a new feature, Chat Lock that lets users secure their chats and keep prying eyes out. In this article, we explain how it works as well as how WhatsApp uses end-to-end ...

Nonprofit certificate authority Let’s Encrypt hit a major milestone earlier this month: it issued its three billionth HTTPS certificate. The ISRG announced this week that Let’s Encrypt issued its ...

Make security technology easier to use, and invariably someone will use it for criminal purposes. The backers of the Let’s Encrypt project wanted to make it easier for website owners to obtain and ...

Let's Encrypt has announced it will no longer notify users about imminent certificate expirations via email due to high costs, privacy concerns, and unnecessary complexities. The decision to end the ...