Η Microsoft has just announced a series of improvements for OneDrive cloud service and Outlook.com, providing consumers with enhanced protection and transparency (as it says) in its core products.
From now on, Outlook.com accounts will be protected by TLS (Transport Layer Security) for incoming and outgoing emails, which means that all messages will be automatically encrypted as they are transferred between Microsoft servers and the recipient if uses TLS.
The company says that this particular feature was made possible after intensive testing by others services international mail companies, such as Deutsche Telekom, Yandex and Mail.Ru, which performed the tests to verify that emails are actually encrypted.
At the same time, Outlook.com got PFS (Perfect Forward Secrecy), το οποίο προσθέτει ένα νέο επίπεδο προστασίας κατά την αποστολή και λήψη μηνυμάτων ηλεκτρονικού ταχυδρομείου από ένα account Microsoft.
"Perfect Forward Secrecy uses different encryption keys for each connection, making it harder for attackers to decrypt the connections," the company explains.
OneDrive cloud service also has PFS encryption as of today, as revealed by Microsoft, which means that everyone who stores files in the cloud will have increased protection when entering the service, not only through the web interface but also through the mobile applications.
Microsoft also announced the launch of a centretransparency that is supposed to allow interested parties to analyze the source code of its various products, including the operating system of Windows (αλλά και του Skype), για να βεβαιωθούν ότι δεν υπάρχουν κρυμμένα backdoors. Αυτό σαφώς υποτίθεται ότι έρχεται σαν μέτρο για την καταπολέμηση των πρόσφατων ισχυρισμών ότι η Microsoft έχει αναπτύξει κρυφό κώδικα στο λογισμικό της για να κατασκοπεύει τους χρήστες της και ότι έχει συνεργαστεί με τις υπηρεσίες των ΗΠΑ σε αυτό.
