April 2016
Beginner
190 pages
4h 4m
English
In the Introduction, I mentioned a common misunderstanding about FileVault, OS X’s built-in full-disk encryption feature. I’ll get to that specific issue—and other misconceptions—in a moment, but in this chapter I cover a broader range of questions about encryption (most of which are applicable to any platform).
Why and under what circumstances is encryption necessary? What are its strengths and weaknesses? How do I go about encrypting data I want to protect? Why isn’t everything encrypted, all the time? Should encryption ...