Banning encryption: why is it a poor idea?
Last year, leaks from the Council of the European Union revealed that the European Union was (again) considering banning encryption. More recently, the Belgian government planned to enact an oppressive...
Tagged: End-to-end Encryption
Welcome to the End-to-end Encryption archives of the Mailfence Blog.
Email Security: 10 best practices to rock 2022
Do you need email security? Email has become an indispensable tool to communicate for many people. The shared data might be confidential, or not, but you have a right to...
Mass surveillance is still happening in 2021
Mass surveillance is still happening nowadays, it should come as no surprise since the revelations of Edward Snowden the NSA whistleblower, little has changed. What changed? Nothing major towards stopping...
Symmetric vs Asymmetric encryption: What’s the difference?
In this blog post, we explain the main differences between symmetric vs asymmetric encryption. This article will also explain which encryption method you should use. Some words about different encryption...
Encryption Backdoors: Do not work!
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...
Password encrypted messages based on symmetric encryption
Secure and private email provider Mailfence announced today the launch of secure emails based on symmetric encryption. Mailfence, one of the world’s most secure and private email services, already allow...
Email Headers: How to read and use message headers
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...
The 4th OpenPGP Email Summit hosted by Mailfence : A brief rundown!
Further to the 4th OpenPGP Email Summit announcement, this blogpost will provide a brief run-down of our overall experience of the event. We engaged with a number of people behind...
OpenPGP Email Summit hosted by Mailfence- October 20-21, 2018
Mailfence will be hosting the 4th OpenPGP Email Summit We are very happy and honoured to announce that Mailfence will be hosting the 4th OpenPGP Email Summit at its headquarters...
Mailfence is not impacted by Efail vulnerabilities
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...