Encryption Category
04/22/2025
Shorter SSL/TLS Lifetimes: Business Impact of Monthly Certificate Renewals
by Frank Rietta
New SSL/TLS rules mean monthly renewals by 2029. Understand the downtime risk and how to prepare your business.
05/03/2017
Americans' Access to Strong Encryption is at Risk, an Open Letter to Congress
by Frank Rietta
The track record of data breaches demonstrates an uncomfortable truth: when sophisticated adversaries want to hack a network, they will ultimately win. With a government mandated encryption backdoor, hackers will make Americans less safe both at home and abroad.
04/22/2016
Calls to Ban Effective Encryption Continue Despite Data Breach Crisis
by Frank Rietta
Calls for the U.S. Congress to ban effective encryption are repeated despite the current information security crisis in which data breaches are regular news.
04/08/2016
U.S. Senate Bill Seeks to Ban Effective Encryption, Making Security Illegal
by Frank Rietta
Senators Feinstein, Burr published a bill in the United States Senate that would effectively ban effective encryption. This bill essentially says you can not have any conversation or data exchange that the government can not access if it wants to.
03/16/2016
It is not just one iPhone, the FBI wants a future where it is impractical to deploy strong encryption without key escrow
by Frank Rietta
The FBI wants a future where it is illegal or impractical to deploy strong encryption without key escrow, which is a key backup system that is insecure at scale. Data breach risks will increase as our devices become less secure.
10/02/2014
Raspberry Pi crypto key management project!
by Frank Rietta
A dedicated offline crypto key management system OpenPGP and an SSL Certificate Authority set up for air-gapped operations using a Raspberry Pi B.
07/07/2014
Introduction to OpenPGP: Decrypt this Message
by Frank Rietta
In this first part of Introduction to OpenPGP, learn to password protect a file using GnuPG, which supports symmetric encryption in addition to its more powerful asymmetric mode.