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Daten- und Festplattenverschlüsselung mit Veracrypt

date Sat May 04, 2019 category Defense
tags Security Crypto Howto Privacy Data Encryption

This post is only available in german. Freitag, 03. Mai 2019 09:49 Im April haben wir auf unserem Youtube Channel zwei Videos zu Veracrypt veröffentlicht. Darin wird gezeigt, wie mit Veracrypt sowohl gesammte Partitionen oder Festplatten, als auch Teilbereiche einer Festplatte als so genann...

Tagging emails sent in plain text with Thunderbird

date Wed Dec 09, 2015 category Defense
tags Mail STARTTLS TLS Security Client Awareness Howto Encryption

Now matter how much you want to secure your mail server, to be able to actually communicate with your customers and partners, you will have to face the ugly truth that enforcing STARTTLS might not be the best idea from a business perspective. Using opportunistic encryption, meaning to encrypt mail...

Importing private CA certificates in Android

date Mon Dec 07, 2015 category How to...
tags Security Encryption Certificate Trust Android

Internal encryption in company networks is important and something that's done relatively easy. By creating your own certificate authority (CA) and signing your server certificates with it, you can establish a centralized point of trust on all your devices, making it much more easy for you to mainta...