Encryption is an interesting thing. The first time I saw encryption in action was on a friend’s Gentoo Linux laptop that could only boot if the USB key with the boot partition and decryption key was ...

The Cloudflare blog has an article on the company's work to improve the performance of Linux disk encryption. "As we can see the default Linux disk encryption implementation has a significant impact ...

Eric Biggers and Paul Crowley were unhappy with the disk encryption options available for Android on low-end phones and watches. For them, it was an ethical issue. Eric said: We believe encryption is ...

Usually I try to write articles that are not aimed at a particular distribution. Although I may give examples assuming a Debian-based distribution, whenever possible, I try to make my instructions ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zettaset, a leading provider of data protection solutions, today announced an expanded collaboration with Red Hat to bring its next generation XCrypt Full Disk ...

I don't compile my own kernel, I use the standard Arch kernels. However, each time pacman (the Arch Linux package manager) has installed a new kernel and rolled a new initrd, I run a small script, ...

Title was also updated to reflect that the flaw allows bypassing disk encryption authentication procedures, not the actual encryption. Encrypted data is safe, but attackers can get root privileges on ...

Like with any industry, the information security industry, more commonly referred to as "cybersecurity," for all its raging debates, has rallied around a small corpus of best practices. One of the ...

Discover the top 7 open-source encryption software options for enterprises in 2026, covering essential features, use cases, and critical insights for effective data protection and compliance.

A security vulnerability discovered in numerous Linux distros potentially puts millions of users at risk. CVE-2016-4484 (Cryptsetup Initrd root Shell) affects the Cryptsetup script that is used to ...