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Introduction

Introduction.

Further to my page offering a "how to" on encrypting emails, this page deals with encrypting files.

There are any number of reasons you may wish to encrypt individual files, for example, maybe you have sensitive customer data, perhaps a client list or cost price tables that if they fell into your competitors hands, would amount to a gold strike.

I will repeat here, it is my belief, all company laptops should have some form of encryption. Ideally, the whole drive should be encrypted, but that is not the subject of this page.

On this page, we're going to discuss how to encrypt individual files.

Introduction.

Why use email encryption?

It's common knowledge that email is not a secure medium to use for communication, but almost everyone has turned a blind eye to that and many millions of messages are sent each day, that are wide open to interception. More recently, the UK government has published plans to create a massive database of every email sent through the UK Internet system and this has raised very serious questions about personal privacy.

HSDPA Huawei E160g

Note:- If you intend to use this device with Intrepid Ibex Ubuntu Version 8.10 released at the end of October 2008 you need not follow any of the steps below. The new version of the Network Manager supports Mobile dialup connections from the Network Manager icon itself on your desktop

SIP(Session Initiate Protocol) Phone or Voice over Internet Protocol

A problem occurred the other day when a DVD video project (Video TS) burned with K3b was unreadable within Windows. When inserted on a windows machine, it would show as a blank DVD, yet on my Ubuntu desktop it showed the Audio TS and Video TS folders and played with no problems what so ever. Several forum posts later it was discovered to be a know bug in Hardy Heron with the precompiled version of geniso included in the distribution. The cure is to downgrade to the gutsy version of it.

Howto install Firefox3 with the Asus EeePC

Brian came to (SoSLUG one of our regulars), us last week with two possible methods for the installation of Firefox3, we thought we would try them out for the benefit of the many of our members that have one. You might be wondering why you should want to upgrade from firefox2 to firefox3, both look identical however firefox3 is a little faster than it's older cousin however it's most interesting feature is it's ability to page zoom, simply by using the "Ctrl +" and "Ctrl -" this allows you view any given page to your screen.

Mounting USB external drives in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)

We came across this interesting problem with Hardy Heron the other day, we wanted to insert a USB flash drive into a computer running the latest Linux distro and access it's contents. It obviously tried to mount the device into the file system but something was stopping it.