If you’ve signed in with a Microsoft account, your disk is likely already encrypted, and the key is likely already stored on ...

Encrypted key exchange is a protocol, or set of rules, that allows two parties sharing a common password to communicate over an insecure network without exposing that password. The protocol was ...

Public and private key cryptography is a powerful solution. The former (asymmetric cryptography) involves a pair of keys that ...

The FBI served Microsoft a warrant requesting encryption recovery keys to decrypt the hard drives of people involved in an ...

Data encryption in the cloud is an absolute requirement these days. When you talk to your service providers about encryption, be sure to specify that you want to control your own keys This column is ...

Microsoft complied with a warrant to hand over BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI, and privacy advocates are worried.

Microsoft was asked last year to give the FBI access to the encryption keys used by BitLocker to protect data on three laptops. The company complied and warned that it receives around 20 similar ...