Yahoo wants its users end-to-end encryption to provide his mail service. That the company has published on the Black Hat-beveiligingsbeurs in Las Vegas. Recently came Google with a pgp-plugin for Google Chrome.
Beveiligingsonderzoeker Alex you will make, that since the NSA revelations by Yahoo is appointed as head of security, said opposite Forbes that pgp will be automatically enabled as soon as the receiver and sender both pgp configured.
Pgp-encryption is end-to-end, which is to say that Yahoo is not in the content of the e-mail. That also means that Yahoo the content of the e-mail can’t scan, but that makes you will make no need to worry about: the kind of mails that shall be encrypted, for example, between activists, according to the security expert yet little commercial value.
Yahoo also plans for its implementation, to co-operate with those of Google. Google chooses to pgp is not directly in Gmail to implement; users must first make a Chrome plug-in download encrypted, to can mail. The plugin is currently only for testers to use, and is not yet available in the Chrome Web Store.
Yahoo says not to be afraid of legal problems, such as Lavabit, the email service provider of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, who was given. Lavabit had its private keys of the American right to hand, so that the mails from Snowden could be decrypted. “The example differs from a publicly traded miljardenbedrijf with an army of lawyers to look to this case to the Supreme court,” thus you will make compared to The Wall Street Journal.
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