Η Yahoo has just announced that files moved between company data centers are now fully encrypted by 31 March.
The announcement comes just a few weeks after Google announced that it had also encrypted all Gmail data passing through its servers. Both Companies φαίνεται να αντιδρούν στις αναφορές των εγγράφων που διέρρευσαν από τον Edward Snowden and are about the NSA's attempts to break into the connections between their data centers, a place where communications were unencrypted.
Yahoo since the scandal broke with their intelligence service USA προσθέτει όλο και περισσότερα επίπεδα ασφαλείας.
For example, in January, the company made browsing safer by adding HTTPS by default. Last month, the company allowed encryption of mail between servers from other email providers that support the SMTPTLS standard.
Searchs through the company home page are now using HTTPS encryption.
The company has implemented TLS 1.2, Perfect Forward secrecy and 2048-bit RSA key on its home page, Mail and Digital Journals. All Yahoo sites will grow to this standard in the coming months.
In addition, the company seems to be preparing for changes to its Messenger, which will release an encrypted version in the coming months.
As all show, all major technology companies have begun to take care of end-user security. But we can not know if all this is to make their image, which has been cracked long enough after Snowden's revelations, or they really do it for the safety of people using their services.
The next Snowden will solve our quest.
