Today, in the digital era, encryption is done using computers and algorithms which convert plain text into incorrigible text. The text which looks like jumbled code can be decoded back to plain ...

For encryption this will produce a .gpg (fine) or a .asc (contains plain text of the encrypted file, also fine). But what if you have text you want to encrypt and decrypt?

So what is encryption? It is the process of taking plain data, including text, and converting it into an unreadable (by humans or computers) form.

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi REUTERS/Rick Stevens The government of India has scrapped a proposal for a new law on encryption that would have required all citizens to maintain a plain-text ...

Simple Strings If just needing to encrypt text, you may not want to store an entire object on the file system like we did with credentials. Storing and retieving encrypted text is a little bit ...

All messages are encrypted before they leave your computer, so there's no concern that plain text is being sent and then encrypted on a third-party server.

Even if you're using IMAP to access your email, certain newer email clients like Thunderbird 3 and Postbox will download and store your emails locally in plain text. This leaves many users making ...

When building secure Java applications, it's important to make sure there are no plain text passwords anywhere in the code base.