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About Encryption and Making Your System Secure
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| Monday, January 5, 2009 |
What encryption do for me?
Encryption and encryption software has been used in many different ways to make systems more secure. This article addresses only a few ways that this software can make your system more secure, including:
1) Encrypt your e-mail
2) Encrypting your files
For programs that are listed help encrypt information. There are many other programs out there to help, but these programs are good and a good place to start as any. They have the advantage of being free with both the source code available.
Encryption will prevent people from access to my information?
Encryption makes it more difficult for people to have access to important information such as passwords or sensitive information in a file. The first thing you should know about encryption is that the algorithm used to encrypt can be simple or more complex and that affects how sure what you have encrypted is protected. Encryption systems have been broken when the encryption method is understood by hackers and is easy to break.
Why bother to encrypt my mail?
It should be noted that electronic mail is far less secure than paper mail for two reasons: first, the exchange of data can be easily accessed on the Internet and, secondly, data exchange is very easy to copy. There is a very good chance that someone has snooped in your e-mail around, despite the best intentions to stop it.
How do I go about encrypting my email?
There are many programs that can help you encrypt your e-mail. A well known is PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) or Gnu offshoot GPG.
PGP (http://www.pgpi.org/) self-describes himself this way: This is a program that gives your e-mail, something that does not have: life Private. It does this by encrypting your mail so that nobody but the person can read it. Once encrypted, the message looks like a meaningless jumble of random characters. PGP has proven quite capable of withstanding, even the most sophisticated analysis to the reading of the cipher text. "
Why bother to encrypt my files?
The answer to this question comes down to what you store on your computer. If you have financial data with important information such as Social Security numbers, email addresses, account numbers and passwords, then you open yourself to lose some valuable information. Most employees of Internet security reflect the widespread theft of valuable information. As long as you're connected to the Internet, you are vulnerable.
How do I go about encrypting my files?
AxCrypt File Encryption Software (http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/) self-described as "Free privacy and security for Windows 98/ME/NT/2K/XP with AES-128 file encryption, compression and of transparency and Open Decrypt in the original request. " |
posted by neptunus @ 1:57 AM
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