The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIP) and its American cousin, Carnivore, have raised many questions around the area of the privacy of email and under what circumstances the state should have the ability to intercept and monitor data.
PGP is a neat private encryption tool that is used extensively for securing email. Perhaps the best recent example of this is the expected demise of PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) after Network Associates finally gave up on it.
It will provide high-level authentication of users, and will use encryption to control who can access content - be it Word documents or audio files. Yet again Microsoft has roused the ire of the privacy lobby with a proposal that is already being...
So for people who want to ensure the privacy of the information they send, public key encryption is highly appropriate. To solve this, the eggheads came up with 'public key encryption', which uses two keys.
However, it is widely recognised that data encryption helps to secure electronic data and safeguard privacy and therefore it is surprising that it has not been more widely adopted in the public sector.
If people used more encryption, they would have fewer problems," said the spokesperson. The ICO said that a common thread in these incidents is the devices lost had no encryption. Mike Maddison, head of security and privacy services at Deloitte...
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