End-to-End Encryption. What Is It and How Does It Work?
What is end-to-end encryption? End-to-end encryption is a method of securely transmitting data in a way that only the sender and recipient can read the actual message by encrypting it on the...
Tagged: OpenPGP
Welcome to the OpenPGP archives of the Mailfence Blog.
Digitally Signed Emails. What Is It And How Do Digital Signatures Work?
Whether you’re signing legal papers, the back of your bank card, or permission for your kid’s school field trip, you are using your signature pretty regularly. In fact, this might...
What is OpenPGP?
OpenPGP is one of the standard protocols for encryption/signature of data. It is the most widely used email encryption standard. It’s also one of the ways Mailfence provides security and...
Mailfence is not impacted by OpenPGP signature spoofing vulnerabilities
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...
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...
Spoofing defense for Custom domains: SPF, DKIM, DMARC
Due to the open and decentralized nature of SMTP, email spoofing is a common issue. Every mail server connected to the internet can attempt to send an email using your...
OpenPGP, S/MIME, Secure Message Escrow: Which E2E encryption is best?
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),...