NEW YORK -- Ask one of the foremost cryptographers of the modern generation what the biggest privacy issue is today and you might expect something like backdoored encryption or government spying. Jon Callas, co-founder of encryption software PGP ("Pretty Good Privacy"), who has worked at Ap...
Details remain vague about the so-called "Efail" exploit, but it appears to involve an attack vector on the encryption implementation in the client software as it processes HTML, rather than a vulnerability in the encryption method itself. Ablog postpublished late Sunday night by the Electronic ...
which might be an NSA project. Open Source encryption software might similarly have been weakened. And the NSA could have decryption capabilities beyond what experts examining Open Source software know. So basically, there is no reliable source of security software...