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  • Jana Runde, Ruhr University Bochum

    ‘Efail’ exploit exposes popular email encryption schemes

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    Katrina Filippidis
    Katrina Filippidis
    05.14.2018

    Encrypted emails guarded by common encryption tools are allegedly "susceptible to critical vulnerabilities" that would expose their content to potential hackers. Sebastian Schnizel, a computer science professor from the University of Münster called attention to the 'Efail' issue on Sunday via Twitter. He subsequently urged users of PGP/GPG and S/Mime software to disable it in their email clients.