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PGP encryption compromised? What's next? Telegram, WhatsApp, Proton, Signal?
submitted by VikingHalo45

A widely used method of encrypting emails has been found to suffer from a serious vulnerability, researchers say.

PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is a data encryption method sometimes added to programs that send and receive email.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44107570

A widely used method of encrypting emails has been found to suffer from a serious vulnerability, researchers say. PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is a data encryption method sometimes added to programs that send and receive email. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44107570
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– Womp_womp (1 point)

FYI encryption is near meaningless in the face of quantum computing. Soon encryption cracking will be effortless for govt entities

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