Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent
Mike Hammett
nanog at ics-il.net
Tue May 15 12:43:35 UTC 2018
Encrypted e-mail is so incredibly niche, this won't affect almost everyone.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
Midwest-IX
http://www.midwest-ix.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "George William Herbert" <george.herbert at gmail.com>
To: nanog at nanog.org
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2018 2:43:25 AM
Subject: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent
This is likely bad enough operators need to pay attention.
@seecurity tweeted:
"We'll publish critical vulnerabilities in PGP/GPG and S/MIME email encryption on 2018-05-15 07:00 UTC. They might reveal the plaintext of encrypted emails, including encrypted emails sent in the past. #efail 1/4"
Thread starts here:
https://twitter.com/seecurity/status/995906576170053633?s=21
I have no particular insight into what it is other than presuming from thread that decryption can be tricked to do bad things.
They recommend temporary disabling downthread:
"There are currently no reliable fixes for the vulnerability. If you use PGP/GPG or S/MIME for very sensitive communication, you should disable it in your email client for now. Also read @EFF’s blog post on this issue: eff.org/deeplinks/2018… #efail 2/4"
-george
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