Eric Lucas on 14 May 2018 09:15:51 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Heads-up, PGP/GPG users: critical security flaw, disable it in email clients NOW


"The authors have done the community a good service by cataloguing buggy
email email clients.  We're grateful to them for that.  We do wish,
though, this thing had been handled with a little less hype.  A whole
lot of people got scared, and over very little."

Yeah, but you get much more press coverage if you hype it up :-( 


On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 11:17 AM, Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com> wrote:
GPG's official response:

https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2018-May/060334.html

On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 10:25:33AM -0400, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> Brief analysis:
>
>       Not So Pretty: What You Need to Know About E-Fail and the PGP Flaw
>       https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/not-so-pretty-what-you-need-know-about-e-fail-and-pgp-flaw-0
>
> Authors' site with link to full paper:
>
>       EFail
>       https://efail.de/
>
> I haven't had time to do more than skim both articles, but will read the
> full paper later today.
>
> ---rsk
>
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