According to Wall Street Journal n Yahoo! will release a plug-in based on Open PGP for end-to-end encryption of its emails by the end of 2015.
Its objective companys is to make the use of PGP encryption accessible to every user and not just to experts.
The plugin is described on the Purple Palace blog by Chief Information Security Officer Alex Stamos. THE codeof e-mail encryption was first presented at South by Southwest (SXSW) over the weekend.
Ο Alex Stamos αναφέρει ότι η Yahoo αυτή τη στιγμή "διανέμει ήδη τον πηγαίο κώδικα στο κοινό για να μπορέσει να έχει ανατροφοδότηση από τον ευρύτερο κλάδο της ασφάλειας." Η τρέχουσα έκδοση δημοσιεύτηκε ήδη στο GitHub.
The code is already covered by Yahoo's bug bounty, and Alex Stamos reports that the company hopes that other e-mail providers will follow their lead. Google is already planning something for Chrome.
The Wall Street Journal also reports that Stamos reminded SXSW attendees that encryption of the content will not protect users from metadata collectors, but at least they will be encrypted.
