[chiglug] EFF: Temporally Stop Using PGP for Encrypted E-mail

sten me at sud0.com
Tue May 15 01:09:06 UTC 2018


https://protonmail.com/blog/pgp-vulnerability-efail/

Protonmail vehemently disagrees, and I think their reasoning is sound.

-------- Original Message --------
On May 14, 2018, 20:04, eviljoel wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> There is a newly discovered vulnerability in PGP that allows attackers
> to decrypted prior messages under certain conditions. The Electronic
> Frontier Foundation (EFF) is recommending people stop using PGP for
> encrypted communications until the problem has been fixed and the fix
> has had time to be adopted by most users. I agree with their
> recommendation. The EFF describes the vulnerability here:
>
> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/not-so-pretty-what-you-need-know-about-e-fail-and-pgp-flaw-0
>
> I kinda disagree with the EFF's tone in this e-mail. While Signal is a
> great platform for text messaging and instant messaging, it really isn't
> a replacement for e-mail. PGP encrypted E-mail works better with
> threaded discussions and doesn't suffer from a single point of failure
> like Signal does. Coming up with a new, decentralized discussion
> platform with the same adoption rate of PGP/e-mail will be extremely
> difficult. I hope that this problem is fixed quickly and doesn't mark
> the end of PGP e-mail encryption.
>
> Sincerely,
> eviljoel
>
> --
> Let me teach you encrypted e-mail. eviljoel's PGP fingerprint:
> A2BE 2D12 24D1 67CA 8830 DDE7 DFB3 676B 196D 6430
>
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