German software developer Werner Koch is known for creating the free email encryption software used by thousands of journalists, dissidents, and security-minded people around the world, including ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Email, that daily workflow staple, is becoming a real problem in this post-Snowden era. Or rather, it always has been an issue ...

Google is asking developers to take over its effort to make end-to-end email encryption more user-friendly, raising questions over whether it’ll ever become an official feature in the company’s ...

A warning has been issued by European security researchers about critical vulnerabilities discovered in PGP/GPG and S/MIME email encryption software that could reveal the plaintext of encrypted emails ...

Software company Network Associates has stopped marketing its PGP e-mail encryption software, a further sign that privacy products are a tough sell. The Santa Clara ...

Adoption of email encryption software was up in 2014. According to The Electronic Frontier Foundation, more email providers are using STARTTLS for email, a standard for end-to-end encryption in email.

Q: Looking for a secure method of encrypting email messages that include sensitive client information that’s easy for the recipient to use. Email continues to be the most common communication channel ...

With Facebook hearings, and privacy changes across the board, data privacy and security has been at the top of everybody’s mind in recent months. In exchange for the convenience of information being ...

Yahoo has quietly introduced a way for people to send scrambled messages through its email service. As first reported in August, Yahoo is providing its email encryption option through a deal with ...

Security experts from Europe are warning users who encrypt their email with PGP and S/MIME, saying they are no longer safe to use. The critical flaw found in the two allows hackers to pull plaintext ...

Encrypted emails guarded by common encryption tools are allegedly "susceptible to critical vulnerabilities" that would expose their content to potential hackers. Sebastian Schnizel, a computer science ...