Encryption failures fixed in popular PGP email security tool Enigmail

September 09, 2014

Developers of the popular Enigmail email security extension for Thunderbird have fixed several issues that could have exposed messages users believed to be encrypted.Enigmail provides a graphical user interface in the Mozilla Thunderbird and SeaMonkey programs that allows users to digitally sign and encrypt email messages using the OpenPGP standard.The Enigmail Project released version 1.7.2 of the extension on Aug. 29 and briefly noted that the release fixes “several important bugs.” The changelog did not contain additional details about the impact of the fixed issues, but included a link to the project’s external bug tracker.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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