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Yahoo! Encryption

Yahoo To Add PGP Encryption For Email 175

Bismillah (993337) writes Yahoo is working on an easy to use PGP interface for webmail, the company's chief information security officer Alex Stamos said at Black Hat 2014. This could lead to some interesting standoffs with governments and law enforcement wanting to read people's messages. From the article: "'We are working to design a key server architecture that allows for automatic discovery of public keys within Yahoo.com and other participating mail providers and to integrate encryption into the normal mail flow,' Stamos said."
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Yahoo To Add PGP Encryption For Email

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  • Awesome!! (Score:5, Funny)

    by hymie! ( 95907 ) on Friday August 08, 2014 @09:05AM (#47629401)

    Now all I have to do is get my father, my mother, my sister, my half-sister, my grandmother, my wife, and my assorted friends to learn what PGP is and how to read the emails I send them.

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