Today we’re announcing the launch of STARTTLS Everywhere, EFF’s initiative to improve the security of the email ecosystem. Thanks to previous EFF efforts like Let’s Encrypt, and Certbot, as well as help from the major web browsers, we’ve seen significant… Read More ›
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A Technical Deep Dive into STARTTLS Everywhere
Today we’re announcing the launch of STARTTLS Everywhere, EFF’s initiative to improve the security of the email ecosystem. Thanks to previous EFF efforts like Let’s Encrypt, and Certbot, as well as help from the major web browsers, we’ve seen significant… Read More ›
Border Spy Tech Shouldn’t Be a Requirement for a Path to Citizenship
The Border Security and Immigration Reform Act (H.R. 6136), introduced before Congress last week, would offer immigrants a new path to citizenship in exchange for increased high tech government surveillance of citizens and immigrants alike. The bill calls for increased… Read More ›
How To Turn PGP Back On As Safely As Possible
Previously, EFF recommended to PGP users that, because of new attacks revealed by researchers from Münster University of Applied Sciences, Ruhr University Bochum, and NXP Semiconductors, they should disable the PGP plugins in their email clients for now. You can… Read More ›
Pretty Good Procedures for Protecting Your Email
A group of researchers recently released a paper that describes a new class of serious vulnerabilities in the popular encryption standard PGP (including GPG) as implemented in email clients. Until the flaws described in the paper are more widely understood… Read More ›
Using the Command Line to Decrypt a Message on Linux
If you have disabled the PGP plugin from your mail client and saved a copy of an encrypted email to your desktop, this guide will help you read that message in as safe a way as possible given what we… Read More ›
PGP and EFAIL: Frequently Asked Questions
Researchers have developed code exploiting several vulnerabilities in PGP (including GPG) for email, and theorized many more which others could build upon. For users who have few—or even no—alternatives for end-to-end encryption, news of these vulnerabilities may leave many questions… Read More ›
Using the Command Line to Decrypt a Message on Windows
If you have disabled the PGP plugin from your mail client and saved a copy of an encrypted email to your desktop, this guide will help you read that message in as safe a way as possible given what we… Read More ›
Using the Command Line to Decrypt a Message on macOS
If you have disabled the PGP plugin from your mail client and saved a copy of an encrypted email to your desktop, this guide will help you read that message in as safe a way as possible given what we… Read More ›
Exporting PGP-Encrypted Email From Outlook
After disabling the GpgOL plugin, you will need to save encrypted messages as files on your hard drive in order to view them later on. 1. Select the encrypted message. 2. Right-click the file ending in “.asc”, then click “Save… Read More ›