[liberationtech] safegmail-is-a-simple-way-to-encrypt-messages-in-gmail

[Alec Muffett]

Maybe someone ought to tell lifehacker this perspective, until Sam gets a
team together to fix it?

    -a

On 23 October 2012 20:11, Steve Weis <steveweis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Seconded. Do not use this extension in production.
>
> I briefly looked at the code and found some mistakes: unauthenticated
> encryption, use of ECB for larger than one block, use of 512-bit ElGamal
> keys, possible timing attack to recover secret key hash, possible entropy
> exhaustion DoS attack, etc.
>
> [deletia]

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