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Free and open certificate authority Let's Encrypt on Thursday issued its billionth certificate, four and a half years after issuing the first certificate. It provides free digital certificates and also handles the certificate management process for site owners.
Let's Encrypt, a free, automated, and open certificate signing authority from the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group, has said it's issued a billion certificates since its launch in 2015. Since late last year, Let's Encrypt has issued at least 1.2 million certificates each day.
Google today published a blog post recommending mobile app developers to encrypt data that their apps generate on the users' devices, especially when they use unprotected external storage that's prone to hijacking. The open-sourced Jetpack Security library lets Android app developers easily read and write encrypted files by following best security practices, including storing cryptographic keys and protecting files that may contain sensitive data, API keys, OAuth tokens.
If you need strong command line encryption on Linux, look no further than 7zip.
Although this tool is typically used for zipping and unzipping files, it also includes the ability to encrypt and decrypt those files. Say you have the files webservers and kubernetes to be encrypted into the file data.7z. The command for this would be:.7z a -p -mx=9 -mhe -t7z data.7z webservers kubernetes.
Apple ditched plans to fully encrypt its iCloud backups two years ago after being pressured by the FBI, it is claimed. Under this plan, Apple would no longer have the key to unlock encrypted data, meaning it would no longer be able provide decrypted backups of its users to the authorities, even under court order.
Google has shared some data on the adoption of Transport Layer Security (TLS) by Android applications and it seems that significant progress has been made over the past two years. read more
Officials say they are concerned about their ability to fight crime and protect citizens, while privacy advocates remain critical of government interference
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