Learn to use the cipher utility with confidence. This Daily Drill Down walks you through using every cipher switch and shows you exactly what happens in the real world when you use these switches.

If I issue an SSH command locally specifying a comment to be executed on the remote host, is the actual command to be executed on the remote host transmitted over an encrypted connection made to the ...

In OS X, you can always toss a file onto the command line instead of laboriously typing out a complete path name because Terminal supports drag and drop. Over at Murphymac, Murphy has posted a video ...

One particularly challenging problem that many IT pros face sooner or later is that of recovering data that has been encrypted using EFS. In this article, I will give you some EFS recovery tricks to ...

A stream cipher is an encryption method in which data is encrypted one byte at a time. In this method, a cryptographic key and algorithm are applied to each binary digit in a plaintext data stream to ...