Small businesses working with sensitive PDF documents may choose to encrypt those documents. An encrypted PDF is password protected, which means you cannot open the document unless you type in the ...

The World Wide Web can be a dangerous place, and if you use a computer in your small business, you need to protect your sensitive data. One way to protect your data is by encrypting PDF files. If you ...

Encrypted PDFs play a vital role in protecting sensitive information, especially during online distribution. By ensuring that only those with the correct password can access the content, encryption ...

German academics have developed a new attack that can extract and steal data from encrypted PDF files, sometimes without user interaction. Named PDFex, the new attack comes in two variations and was ...

There are times when a PDF truly needs encryption—for instance, if it contains sensitive information and someone just emailed it to you (let’s hope they used another communications method to send you ...

The key used for these kinds of symmetric encryption is called as File Encryption Key (or FEK). This FEK is in return encrypted with a public or a private key algorithm like RSA and stored with the ...