The ubiquitous email encryption schemes PGP and S/MIME are vulnerable to attack, according to a group of German and Belgian researchers who posted their findings on Monday. The weakness could allow a ...

In 2015, as part of the wave of encrypting all the things on the internet, encouraged by the Edward Snowden revelations, Facebook announced that it would allow users to receive encrypted emails from ...

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A team of nine academics is warning the world about a critical vulnerability in the OpenPGP and S/MIME email encryption tools. The flaw, codenamed EFAIL, if exploited, allow an attacker to extract the ...

Full details of the Efail flaw have now been made public ahead of the original schedule. My reading? Not as serious as first mooted, in particular the chances of having your past encrypted emails ...