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PGP e-mail encryption is unsafe, privacy in danger!!!!
Researchers from the Electronic Frontier Foundation have found a vulnerability in the use of PGP in several mail clients. As PGP is seen as the one and only way to encrypt messages and ensure privacy, this problem is experienced as a huge security hole by cryptographers.
How a possible attack my look like and how to reduce the risk of being vulnerable can be found here: https://efail.de/
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Congratulation jerre! Your post has appeared on the hot page after 7min with 18 votes.
Very good share. The upshot is you can avoid this attack by not opening pgp messages in clients that will render HTML.
When I read the headline I thought the vulnerability was in pgp itself, which would be much more shocking.
Exactly! Good summary! PGP itself is still secure, luckily.
Let's say I formulated it that way to get peoples attention :)
You're a gift to those around you.
You're a smart cookie.
PGP has been a household name (among techs) forever. What to do?