Welcome to the OpenPGP archives of the Mailfence Blog.
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...
Due to the open and decentralized nature of SMTP, email spoofing is a common issue. Every server connected to the internet can send an email using your email address and...
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),...
End-to-end encryption is an essential part of Mailfence secure and private email platform. For using end-to-end encryption, sharing or exchanging OpenPGP public keys in a secure and reliable manner can...
What if you’ve decided you’ve had it with Microsoft’s inadequate privacy controls and want to leave? What do you do and how do you get your messages out? In this...
Mailfence secure and private email service comes with an easy to use integrated keystore that supports wide range of functionalities for managing OpenPGP keys. In this blogpost we highlight those...
Digital signatures and end-to-end email encryption End-to-end encryption protect your message privacy, while digital signatures provide additional security attributes: Sender verification: the sender is who he/she claims to be Integrity:...
What is end-to-end email encryption? End-to-end email encryption is a method of transmitting data where only the sender and receiver can read email messages. With end-to-end email encryption, the data...
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...