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
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
2018/05/14: Article on the EFAIL vulnerabilities concerning OpenPGP and S/MIME encrypted emailRead more
2018/05/17: Matthew Green thoughts on the EFAIL vulnerabilities disclosure, its handling and the future of PGPRead more
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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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
2018/05/14: Article on the disclosed vulnerabilities in OpenPGP and S/MIMERead more