A new set of vulnerabilities affecting users of PGP and S/MIME

Re:A new set of vulnerabilities affecting users of PGP and S... by arca_vorago on Monday May 14, 2018 @02:41AM (#17063255)

My main question is does it affect gpg as well?

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Re:A new set of vulnerabilities affecting users of PGP and S... by plugger on Monday May 14, 2018 @02:57AM (#17063336)

According to the quote in the article, yes.

The flaws “might reveal the plaintext of encrypted emails, including encrypted emails you sent in the past,” Sebastian Schinzel, a professor of computer security at Münster University of Applied Sciences, wrote on Twitter. “There are currently no reliable fixes for the vulnerability. If you use PGP/GPG or S/MIME for very sensitive communication, you should disable it in your email client for now.”

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Re:A new set of vulnerabilities affecting users of PGP and S... by craftyguy on Monday May 14, 2018 @03:19AM (#17063469)

>"If you use PGP/GPG or S/MIME for very sensitive communication, you should disable it in your email client for now.”

So folks relying on these thing for sensitive communication should do no communitcation until..??? Just trying to clarify.

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Re:A new set of vulnerabilities affecting users of PGP and S... by jstanley on Monday May 14, 2018 @03:25AM (#17063502)

Until a fix is released and they've installed it, one would assume.

The paper is being released tomorrow morning at 7am GMT so we should learn more then.

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Re:A new set of vulnerabilities affecting users of PGP and S... by jwilk on Monday May 14, 2018 @03:25AM (#17063498)

I don't see any such quote in the article. :/

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Re:A new set of vulnerabilities affecting users of PGP and S... by techrede on Monday May 14, 2018 @02:56AM (#17063333)

Yes, PGP/GPG is affected

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