US Government Requires HTTPS

Jun 17, 2015

The Obama White House has issued a memorandum telling all US government agencies they must use HTTPS for all websites and web communication.

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Fedora Announces Innovative Crytography Policy System

Mar 18, 2014

New crypto policy system will offer easier configuration and more uniform security.

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Dark Alliance Reinvents Email Security

Nov 05, 2013

New mail protocol will shut out the NSA and prevent snooping on metadata.

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Communication in the Post-PRISM World PRISM Break: Part 1

Aug 12, 2013

Linux users didn’t need the recent NSA eavesdropping scandal to convince them that securing communication was a good idea. For years, free software developers have been creating secure tools that offer similar functionalities to all of those popular but very leaky services with ridiculous names.

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OpenSSL with Bash Using the OpenSSL toolkit with Bash

Dec 04, 2012

Cryptography is an important part of IT security, and OpenSSL is a well-known cryptography toolkit for Linux. Experts depend on OpenSSL because it is free, it has huge capabilities, and it’s easy to use in Bash scripts.

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Rescue Me

Nov 19, 2012

When I was thinking about ways you could rescue your system with Linux, the thought occurred to me: Why not rescue your life? Because that’s what Linux can do for you.

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Testing Password Quality Creating secure passwords and testing their quality

Oct 09, 2012

Create secure passwords with the help of a password generator and check for quality at the same time.

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Tech Tools

Jun 21, 2012

Linux Mint Announces mintBox

ownCloud Introduces Version 4

Mozilla Updates Thunderbird

Obnam 1.0 Released

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