encryption

Search gives me huge articles and just says "it's encryption". Ok but what's the practical example? like if I switch to a new motherboard or install new os the ssd will stop working? do I need third party software and it's going to set up a password before loading windows and in the options it...

I have been thinking about this for some time and am having trouble coming to a conclusion, so maybe the hive can help me out. Due to health issues, I have been a bit out of the tech loop for the last couple of years, so please bear with me. My wife and I have moved to using laptops as our main...

Hi guys, Posting this under networking because I think that's likely the underlying issue but I have a very odd error that I can't resolve. Starting yesterday I am getting 0X800CCC1A errors on outgoing email - your server does not support the connection encryption type you have specified...

I have a cron job that runs once a week (Sunday) that archive the entire directory: 7z a -t7z -m0=lzma -mx=9 -mfb=64 -md=32m -ms=on -pThePassword -mhe=on /home/mybackups/$(date +%Y-%V)/$(date +%Y-%V).7z /var/www/html I then have another cron job that runs every day expect for Sunday: 7z u...

Does anybody know any file encryption products for Microsoft Windows (AES256 cryptography) that would be working multithreading, i.e. encrypting multiple files at the same time? What I found on the market is VeraCrypt and AXCrypt solutions. Does anybody know any other products? I mean good...

Hi everyone, I'm now looking for a way to get an SSD PSID (Physical Security ID) from the inside of it. I know it is an hexadecimal identifier to lock the SSDs from piracy issues. Supposedly from what I know, if you erase or modify the SMART Values on the inside of an SSD twice, it will...

The building I am at now provides wifi, and when connecting iPhone I get the 'security recommendation' message about making my wifi use WPA2 AES. Anyway, I contacted the building manager who spoke with the internet people, and I was told both were enabled to allow more devices to be able to...

Hi, I am reading about PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) and I want pretty good privacy but I don't know much about PGP as it is seems complex to me and how can I get one? how does it works?

So I purchased a Lenovo E570 about a month ago, with Windows 10 Home. Yesterday, I upgraded it to Windows 10 Pro so that I could use Bitlocker. Long story short: I'm having trouble encrypting my secondary fixed data drive. Let me explain in detail: I've got an M.2 PCIe NVMe boot drive (from...

What's the best way to go about encrypting your Windows drive with a Samsung 850 Pro? The drive seems to have a hardware encryption options, but I'm afraid this is all very much new to me. I have a TPM enabled motherboard.

Related to smartphone security, do anyone know what encrypted smartphone means and how to do that?