Re: [PLUG] Heads-up, PGP/GPG users: critical security flaw, disable it i

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

I was going to re-post that part too Eric...

...in bold :)

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From: "Eric Lucas" <eric@lucii.org>
To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2018 12:15:45 PM
Subject: 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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