Last Thursday, Yahoo announced their plans to support end-to-end encryption using a fork of Google's end-to-end email extension. This is a Big Deal. With providers like Google and Yahoo onboard, email encryption is bound to get a big kick in the ass. This is something email badly needs.
So great work by Google and Yahoo! Which is why following complaint is going to seem awfully ungrateful. I realize this and I couldn't feel worse about it.
As transparent and user-friendly as the new email extensions are, they're fundamentally just re-implementations of OpenPGP -- and non-legacy-compatible ones, too. The problem with this is that, for all the good PGP has done in the past, it's a model of email encryption that's fundamentally broken.
more here............http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/08/whats-matter-with-pgp.html
So great work by Google and Yahoo! Which is why following complaint is going to seem awfully ungrateful. I realize this and I couldn't feel worse about it.
As transparent and user-friendly as the new email extensions are, they're fundamentally just re-implementations of OpenPGP -- and non-legacy-compatible ones, too. The problem with this is that, for all the good PGP has done in the past, it's a model of email encryption that's fundamentally broken.
more here............http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/08/whats-matter-with-pgp.html