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Posted byAugmentedMakaylain/infosec-May 20, 2016 at 11:58 PMΔ

[Discussion] Best encryption software available to the public

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I'd like to hear everyones thoughts on their preferred or recommended encryption software.

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  • KoalaComptrollerMay 21, 2016 at 4:37 AMΔ

    Well, I guess I'd suggest GPG as being the gold standard in terms of cryptographically verifying messages and encryption/decryption, it's both open-source and widely used. It suffers greatly from a usability standpoint though. There are things like OTR by Cypherpunks for Pidgin, that works quite nicely.

    It depends on what you want and the level of the user I guess, I mean crypto-software for messaging is going to be a different beast than say something for encrypting data at rest.

    I've had plenty of success with VeraCrypt (a fork of TrueCrypt) for encrypting larger volumes of data.

    Mobile-wise there's WhatsApp, that does a pretty good job of end-to-end encryption. I'm aware of the recent claims made by McAfee et al, but those attacks seemed to rely on a corruption of the underlying system, not WhatsApp's encryption itself.

    • KoalaComptrollerMay 21, 2016 at 4:56 AM

      Surespot looks pretty neat too, it's also open source

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