Tag: PGP
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Efail: What A Disclosure FAIL That Was!
[This was originally published on RiskBasedSecurity.com.] Yesterday, news broke of a “critical” vulnerability in OpenPGP and S/MIME, named ‘Efail’ that could lead to an attacker gaining access to plaintext emails. News broke in the form of a dire warning from the Electronic Frontier Foundation warning people to “immediately disable and/or uninstall tools that automatically decrypt PGP-encrypted email.”…
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Social Implications of Keysigning
[This was originally published on attrition.org. It was written by Raven and Jericho. A Bulgarian translation was done.] Intro The use of strong public encryption has always been popular among geeks. Perhaps the most commonly used and most beloved encryption for e-mail is Pretty Good Privacy (PGP); started as a free method for protecting emails…