Encryption is an interesting thing. The first time I saw encryption in action was on a friend’s Gentoo Linux laptop that could only boot if the USB key with the boot partition and decryption key was ...

Researchers from German security firm Recurity Labs have released a JavaScript implementation of the OpenPGP specification that allows users to encrypt and decrypt webmail messages. Called ...

Mozilla announced plans this week to add native support for the OpenPGP email encryption standard inside Thunderbird, the organization's open-source email client. Support is expected to land in the ...

The widely-used OpenPGP and S/MIME email encryption protocols suffer from weaknesses that may ultimately expose the plaintext of encrypted messages to attackers, according to a team of eight academics ...

Last week the schedule for our weekly security column collided with the Independence Day holiday. The upside is that we get a two-for-one deal this week, as we’re covering two weeks worth of news, and ...

Phil Zimmermann, the legendary creator of e-mail and file-encryption program PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), will become the chief cryptographer for Web-based e-mail ...

A flaw found by two Czech researchers in the popular OpenPGP digital signature standard is real but relatively minor, Phil Zimmermann, chairman of the open-source group, said Wednesday. "This is not a ...

In several years of training journalists, I have seen that most journalists agree with the need for encryption to protect their information, but only a few of them really embrace the technology. At ...

A research team has demonstrated that the two most common email encryption standards are vulnerable to attacks. Their attack, referred to as Efail, proved successful in 25 out of 35 tested email ...

Two researchers are being singled out in what are called PGP poisoning or flood attacks that render the authentication tool unusable for victims. A long-feared attack ...