Welcome to the Security archives of the Mailfence Blog.
TLS is a protocol that encrypts traffic between a client program and the server. It also ensures that the software client is talking to the right server. Protocols are continuously...
What happens when you would like to change the supplier that has your private email data on its servers? Is it possible to get your data back? In the following...
You probably know someone or have heard a really scary case of hacking or scamming. What you probably do not know however is that more than 80% of all successful...
New vulnerabilities in many OpenPGP and S/MIME enabled email clients were announced on 2019-04-30. These signature spoofing vulnerabilities exploit weaknesses in the way OpenPGP signatures are verified by email clients...
Some background knowledge on Encryption Backdoors Certain events have led to renewed calls from governments and law enforcement for more sophisticated tools for monitoring suspects. One idea that has received renewed attention...
This blogpost will explain how to read and understand the email header which travels with every email. It contains details about the sender, taken route and the receiver. Use this...
New vulnerabilities in many OpenPGP and S/MIME enabled email clients were announced yesterday. These “Efail” vulnerabilities have attracted a lot of attention in the media. As per our analysis, Mailfence...
From SMTP to OpenPGP, S/MIME and Secure Message Escrow Emails have been the epicenter of online communication for decades now. Unfortunately the underlying protocol called SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol),...
In a recent post, we discussed the OpenPGP encryption best practices. Digital signatures on the other hand are also a vital part of OpenPGP which gets used both by advanced and entry level users....
Strong encryption is no longer a privilege of geeks and paranoids, but is becoming mainstream. However, true end-to-end encryption is not out-of-the-box and generally requires you to activate a number of...