Showing posts with label tunnel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tunnel. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

When is Encrypted really Encrypted?

   With all the discussion on the NSA and what they can, and cannot, see, collect and decrypt on the net, the picture is pretty muddy.  Google has the announced plans to enhance their encryption.  Perhaps most confusing is what this means for home users.  Is your data safe?  Is it being collected?  Who can see your data and how can it be kept private?

   First, a few concepts... you can skip this and jump right to the "how-to's" if you want.  Without getting too deep into the bits and bytes, there are basically 2 forms of encryption: transport and file.