[Cryptography] FW: [13 Principles] An important urgent notice from EFF regarding PGP and S/MIME communications.

[Jack Harper]

[Hello Moderator: I am not certain what 'top posting' means.  I think 
possibly that I need to flip the order perhaps. Please let me know if 
I am wrong on this. Regards,  Jack]




At 12:48 AM 5/14/2018, James S. Tyre wrote:
>...An important urgent notice from EFF regarding PGP and S/MIME 
>communications. 
>https://twitter.com/seecurity/status/995906638556155904 
>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/attention-pgp-users-new-vulnerabilities-require-you-take-action-now 
>Dear Colleagues, A group of European security researchers have 
>released a warning about a set of vulnerabilities affecting users of 
>PGP and S/MIME....



Am I correct that the found PGP flaw appears to only affect 
enciphered e-mail traffic and not files that are enciphered by PGP 
but not mailed?

I use PGP to protect sensitive files on my laptop when traveling etc.

Thoughts?


Regards,

Jack Harper
Secure Outcomes Inc





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