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Len Sassaman was an American technologist, cryptographer, and privacy advocate whose work helped shape digital security and privacy today. He played a key role in developing tools like Mixmaster, an ...

So I am wondering, is PGP/GPG still the best standard for general purpose pubic key cryptography, in 2025? * Pro: Standard that's been around a long time, so there is widespread tool/app support (e.g.

SAP SE today addressed two newly disclosed vulnerabilities in its SAP Graphical User Interface client applications following their discovery in coordinated research by Pathlock Inc. and Fortinet Inc.

Encrypting your messages ensures that no one, not even your email provider, can read them. PreVeil and Proton Mail both handle that task, each with its own style. I help you decide which is right for ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

When Google announced Tuesday that end-to-end encrypted messages were coming to Gmail for business users, some people balked, noting it wasn’t true E2EE as the term is known in privacy and security ...

Hal Finney was a Bitcoin supporter, a revered cryptographer and cypherpunk, and a gifted computer scientist. Hal was the first person to run the Bitcoin software in 2009, setting a firm base for the ...