Users Warned of Critical PGP Email Encryption Security Flaw
By Catalin Cimpanu | May 14, 2018
A team of nine academics is warning the world about critical vulnerabilities in the PGP and S/MIME email encryption tools.
The flaws, if exploited, allow an attacker to decrypt sent or received messages, according to the researcher team.
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Users are advised to disable email encryption to avoid any attackers from recovering past encrypted emails after the paper’s publication…
Users in dire need of using encryption to protect their communications channels were advised to use an instant messaging client that supports end-to-end encryption, the EFF recommended.
Read the full article here, which includes links to EFF’s published tutorials on disabling PGP and related plugins.
Announcement from Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Attention PGP Users: New Vulnerabilities Require You To Take Action Now
May 13, 2018
The full details will be published in a paper on Tuesday at 07:00 AM UTC (3:00 AM Eastern, midnight Pacific). In order to reduce the short-term risk, we and the researchers have agreed to warn the wider PGP user community in advance of its full publication.
