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Why I Wrote PGP

10 years after its release, Philip Zimmermann remembered why he wrote PGP and published it on the Internet as a free and open source software program in June 1991.Read more

PGP: Encryption Program Used by Edward Snowden 'Can Leak Secret Messages' (Newsweek article)

2018/05/14: Newsweek article about EFAIL disclosure.

This article is interesting as it makes the link between the EFAIL disclosure and the emblematic figure of digital rights activist Edward Snowden:

PGP, which is used to scramble the content of sensitive messages and

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Die wichtigsten Fakten zu Efail (Golem article)

2018/05/22: Article analyzing and answering questions linked to the EFAIL vulnerabilitiesRead more

ENIGMAIL/P≡P: Current release for Windows is faulty (Blog post)

2018/10/03: PEP foundation blog post on Enigmail/p≡p faulty update for Windows and updates about the solutionsRead more

Encryption? This time it'll be usable, Thunderbird promises (The Register article)

2019/01/04: Article on the developpement of Encryption by ThunderbirdRead more

A history of end-to-end encryption and the death of PGP - January 2020 (cryptologie.net blog post)

01/2020: Here's a documented though critical history of PGP, with insightful links. Providing several consensual (or at least presented so) arguments and documents, the author argues that PGP is dead. However, the article ommits to mention that 2019 witnessed the emergence or fostering of...Read more

GnuPG Flaw in Encryption Tools Lets Attackers Spoof Anyone's Signature (The Hacker News article)

2018/06/15: Article about the SigSpoof vulnerability which makes it possible for attackers to fake digital signaturesRead more

GPG And Me (Moxie blog post)

2015/02/24: Moxie's criticisms about PGP, with a harsh conclusion: 

In the 1990s, I was excited about the future, and I dreamed of a world where everyone would install GPG. Now I’m still excited about the future, but I dream of a

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No, PGP is not broken, not even with the Efail vulnerabilities (Protonmail)

2018/05/15: Article going through why PGP isn't "broken" even though vulnerabilities have been found in it. 

Reaction to this article available here : https://cva.unifr.ch/content/no...Read more

S/MIME artists: EFAIL email app flaws menace PGP-encrypted chats (The Register article)

2018/05/14: Article describing the EFAIL vulnerabilities concerning OpenPGP and S/MIME encrypted emailRead more

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