encrypting

If such a trojan is not specifically configured to grab Steam data, hashing/encrypting client-side will provide some protection.

For example, encrypting clientside and not decrypting serverside will mean it's impossible to have a plaintext password leak in the future, which decreases risk.

Just compressing the images into an archive, if not encrypting them, is enough to evade such a filter.

Very similar to encrypting different data with same key multiple times giving the messages 'depth' that can be exploited.

What's to stop companies from additionally encrypting their channels end to end while passing through the backbone?

Everyone should have a password, then it's just a matter of encrypting who has how much money.

Encryption means encrypting information which can later be decrypted.

Well, hopefully they learned something from the NSA documents and are at least encrypting the data they're sending home now.

So are you encrypting the RSA priv key with the fingerprint or just checking the fingerprint before using the key?

CTR saves you the trouble of padding your plaintext before encrypting, thus eliminating an entire class of cryptography attacks (i.e.

Here is an implementation of the same thing, but tailored toward encrypting Bitcoin private keys.

Someone's credibility as a programmer isn't destroyed in my mind because they say encrypt to describe hashing, especially if they are in fact, hashing and not encrypting and understand why.

I don't know what you mean by "encrypt per email address." Who is doing the encrypting, and to who?

Vague stuff about "hashing or encrypting" is not good enough.

Hopefully they learned from the NSA documents and are encrypting the "telemetry" they're sending back now -- though that will just make it that much harder to determine exactly what that "telemetry" contains.