Questions tagged [encryption]
Encryption is the process of transforming information using an algorithm to make it unreadable to anyone except those possessing special knowledge.
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Security of an encrypted partition in a flash drive
I have a flash drive that I carry with me everywhere in a keyring for convenient access to personal files on other people's computers. In the past, these flash drives tend to get lost as they break ...
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Get owner password of pdf from qpdf decryption?
I have a pdf file which I removed the owner password using
qpdf --decrypt encrypted_document.pdf decrypted_document.pdf
However, I need to know what the owner password is. Did qpdf find the onwer ...
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NAS as storage save against encryption virus?
I want to buy a NAS storage so that I can RAID the HDD's to prevent lost data if a HDD fails and use it as long term storage that I can access anytime.
The only non user error way to lose my data I ...
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Using python-gnupg library in AWS lambda function [closed]
I'm using Python 3.12 in an AWS Lambda function to decrypt PGP encrypted files. I'm using the python-gnupg version 0.6.0 library to do this. It decrypts files fine on my development Mac but fails when ...
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When I do a fresh install of win11 from usb stick, why is bitlocker enabled?
asking for a friend,
doing clean install of win11,
& logging in with MS account,
it setups bitlocker,
without being asked,
and it doesn't save the key to the MS account,
nor does it prompt you to ...
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Encrypted .dmg file password no longer working - even older versions
I have an encrypted 10mb .dmg file on my Mac.
The password is the same as the password I use to login to the very laptop I am typing this is on.
The .dmg won't open and tells me the password is ...
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Can I dd from one opened luks container to another?
I want to migrate my encrypted data from one drive to another. Both source and target should be encrypted. I've read in some other question, that I should create a new container, so that the superkey ...
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Should one really disable AEAD for recent GnuPG created PGP keys?
Apparently, there are some problems with the new defaults that are set when one creates a PGP key using a recent version of GnuPG (2.4).
I ran into this after generating a new ECC/ED25519 key to ...
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How secure is VirtualBox's VM encryption?
I'm using VirtualBox 7 on Windows 11.
How secure is their disk image encryption?
Where is the encryption key stored?
If a third party gets access to the computer when the VM is turned off, what are ...
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How to encrypt folder files using zip.exe [closed]
Example -path1 - desktop/file_source
Path2 - desktop/e_data_source.
How can we encrypt files from desktop/file_source to desktope_data_source path using zip.exe in cmd.
Could you please help me.? Is ...
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How to get minimal vendor information about the TPM chip installed in my laptop
How do I get some minimal information about the TPM chip in my Linux laptop?
Information such as the manufacturer, manufacturer id, manufacturer version.
So far I have tried the tpm2_getcap command to ...
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Encrypting with generic GPG key in gpg4win
One of our business partners has a PGP domain key where the key is valid for encryption to any email address of the business.
The user id of the key is like [email protected] - and for the life of ...
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How can I publish an RTSP stream to a MediaMTX instance with TLS encryption configured?
I have an instance of (MediaMTX) running on my laptop. I have an Amcrest IP camera. I can publish the camera's RTSP stream to the server so that the stream can be accessed from the MediaMTX instance.
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Does Bitlocker ever automatically suspend protection for non-OS drives / partitions? Or would a user ever need to manually do this?
I know that Bitlocker can automatically suspend protection on an OS drive / partition to, for example, install certain system updates.
And that sometimes the user might need to manually suspend ...
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can anyone explain how user keys are verified (post host key/KEX, and not authorized_keys)? issue with ssh user key verify
Nutshell: Looking for a bit of an ELI5 explaining the protocol and/or implementation (openssh) of [post-KEX] user key verification (who does what) without being in code I don't understand or a too-...
