OpenPGP

ENIGMAIL/P≡P: current update 1.0.24 fixes bug under Windows

2018/10/12: PEP foundation's blog post on the Enigmail's bug under Windows, its solution, the background, the extent of the damage and error avoidanceRead more

#EFail - the security industry and the importance of nuance (HackDefense article)

2018(05/14: Article criticizing the handling of the EFAIL vulnerabilities disclosureRead more

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

2018/05/14: Comments section under the article of The Register "S/MIME artists: EFAIL email app flaws menace PGP-encrypted chats"Read more

People Are Freaking Out That PGP Is ‘Broken’—But You Shouldn’t Be Using It Anyway (Motherboard, screenshot)

Negociation as a drawback?

The authors make a bold statement:

If we've learned 3 important things about cryptography design in the last 20 years, at least 2 of them are that negotiation and compatibility

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What are the pros and cons of standardization?
The PGP Problem (Latacora blog post)
OpenPGP
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

PGP und S/MIME: So funktioniert Efail (Heise, screenshot)

6/12/2016 - Filippo Valsorda: "I'm giving up on PGP"

2016/12/06: 

Filippo Valsorda's post on the reasons why he decided to dive up on PGP. Among these reasons, we find the lack of people actually using PGP, the usability of the software programs, and, above all, the security of the long term key.
[QUotation style:] "The more
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An example with PGP on cryptologie.net

N.B. I'm aware that the author's goal was very different from mine. The criticisms I will mention are more addressed to myself than to his work.

This history is an interesting one...Read more

How to write the history of a digital object?
A history of end-to-end encryption and the death of PGP - January 2020 (cryptologie.net blog post)
Digital Ethnography
Verschlüsselte E-Mails sind nicht sicher (Süddeutsche article)

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

PGP Keyserver bundle

Hanno's tweet on PGP keyserver
Modelling an abuse-resistant OpenPGP keyserver, Daniel Kahn Gillmor, OpenPGP Mailing List, 2019/04/04
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

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