The Internet Security Research Group and its Let's Encrypt project -- a free, automated and open security certificate authority -- wants to make the Internet securer than it is today.

A new security audit has found critical vulnerabilities in VeraCrypt, an open-source full-disk encryption program that's the direct successor to the widely popular, but now defunct, TrueCrypt.

America Online releases a version of AIM that offers client-to-client encryption. The company also unveils a gateway that lets firms decode encrypted IMs leaving their servers.

America Online releases a version of AIM that offers client-to-client encryption. The company also unveils a gateway that lets firms decode encrypted IMs leaving their servers.

TrueCrypt’s a free, open-source encryption program available for Windows, OS X and Linux that can be used to encrypt individual folders and whole disk drives alike.

The program started in 2000, pre-9-11 times when encryption tools really started to spread on the web. Since that time they have been secretly working to undermine most encryption technology.