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PGP und S/MIME abschalten (Golem article)

2018/05/14: Article on the disclosed vulnerabilities in OpenPGP and S/MIMERead more

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

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

PGP und S/MIME: E-Mail-Verschlüsselung akut angreifbar (Heise Security article)

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

"“PGP” can mean a bunch of things"

There are two interesting quotes regarding the question. First, at the very beginning of the article, the author affirm:

"PGP" can mean a bunch of things, from the OpenPGP

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Was the Efail disclosure horribly screwed up? – A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering (blog post)

2018/05/17: Matthew Green thoughts on the EFAIL vulnerabilities disclosure, its handling and the future of PGPRead 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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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

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