OpenPGP

Die wichtigsten Fakten zu Efail (Golem article)

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

SigSpoof: Spoofing signatures in GnuPG, Enigmail, GPGTools and python-gnupg (NeoPG blog post)

2018/06/13: Blog post on the "SigSpoof". Marcus Brinkmann found this vulnerability that allows spoofing “signed” messages that are not actually signed. This post proves the vulnerability and shows the medias' reactionsRead more

The PGP Problem (Latacora blog post)

2019/07/16:

The aim of this article is very clear right from the start: to convince the readers not to use PGP. The first paragraph set the pace:

Cryptography engineers have been tearing their hair out over PGP's de ciencies for (literally) decades.

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Efail: Breaking S/MIME and OpenPGP Email Encryption using Exfiltration Channels

EFAIL Usenix paper, released (in a draft version) on may 14, 2018 due to embargo break. It describes the EFAIL attacks (technique: malleability gadgets) to reveal plaintext of emails encrypted with S/MIME and OpenPGP.Read 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

Email Is Dangerous (The Atlantic article)

2018/05/21: Article on who is concerned by the EFAIL vulnerabilities and why email, in general, isn't securedRead more

What “Efail” Tells Us About Email Vulnerabilities and Disclosure (Lawfare article)

2018/05/24: Article on EFAIL vulnerability, email vulnerabilities and the patching of those vulnerabilities. It questions the safety of emails in generalRead more

EFF : Attention PGP Users New Vulnerabilities Require You To Take Action Now (EFF article)

2018/05/14: EFF statement regarding the newly disclosed vulnerabilities affecting PGP and S/MIME usersRead more

What's the matter with PGP? (Matthew Green blog post)

2014/08/13: Green's criticisms towards OpenPGPRead more

efail: Outdated Crypto Standards are to blame (Hanno's blog)

2018/05/22: Hanno Böck's thoughts and opinion about the EFAIL vulnerability, OpenPGP and S/MIME,Read more

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