[Cryptography] Google "End to End"

StealthMonger StealthMonger at nym.mixmin.net
Fri Jun 6 20:28:44 EDT 2014


Dave Howe <davehowe.pentesting at gmail.com> writes:

> On 06/06/2014 06:46, Tom Mitchell wrote:

>> Google is putting a toe into the crypto world
>> for email.....

>>    https://code.google.com/p/end-to-end/

> Looks like they are recreating https://www.mailvelope.com/ but with only
> one browser supported and less functionality....

The fatal flaw of mailvelope was that unfinished mail might be shared
with the server in plain text during edit -- something about the DOM[1].

Are you saying that google's end-to-end also has this flaw?

[1] https://tails.boum.org/doc/encryption_and_privacy/FireGPG_susceptible_to_devastating_attacks/


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