Thanks for the heads up! (The eff alert only suggests disabling tools that *automatically* decrypt messages, Stumbling around a bit on the net, this sounds like a rehash of https://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/bugs/226/ Anyway, if you have a checkbox for 'automatically decrypt', you might consider unticking it.) - Dan
On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 12:27 AM, Robert J. Hansen <r...@sixdemonbag.org> wrote: > [taps the mike] > > Hi. I maintain the official GnuPG FAQ. So let me start off by > answering a question that is certainly about to be asked a lot: "Should > we be worried about OpenPGP, GnuPG, or Enigmail? The EFF's advising us > to uninstall it!" > > https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/attention-pgp-users-new-vulnerabilities-require-you-take-action-now > > Werner saw a preprint of this paper some time ago. I saw it recently. > Patrick Brunschwig of Enigmail saw it. None of us are worried. Out of > respect for the paper authors I will skip further comment until such > time as the paper is published. > > It would've been nice if EFF had reached out to us for comment, rather > than apparently only talking to the paper authors. We hope they'll > reach out next time. > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
