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EFF Analyzes Secure Messaging

April 25, 2016 by Marc Handelman in Communications, Communications Governance, Cryptography, EFF, Information Security

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published an interesting look at secure messaging, as it exists today, including a super-handy scorecard. Yay!

April 25, 2016 /Marc Handelman /Source
Communications, Communications Governance, Cryptography, EFF, Information Security

EFF Unleashes HTTPS Everywhere 5 →

April 06, 2015 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, EFF, Encryption, Information Security, SSL / TLS

News (on April 2, 2015), of the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox, Google Inc.'s (NasdaqGS: GOOG) Chrome, Google Inc.'s Android and Norways' Opera Software ASA's Opera browser tunneling plugin HTTPS Everywhere Version 5, of which, has been released by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

While we do applaud (and support, and you should too) the EFF in the organizations' effort to provide secure tunneling to the world (one plugin at a time), there is always the concern of governmental, corporate and institutional users sitting behind proxies with in-built MITM surveillance capabilities, similar to the Stanford MITM model...

April 06, 2015 /Marc Handelman
All is Information, EFF, Encryption, Information Security, SSL / TLS

All Your Base, Encrypted They Are

November 25, 2014 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Complexity, IETF, Information Security, SSL / TLS, EFF

Efforts are underway, led by the inimitable Electronic Frontier Foundation to encrypt the Internets, in it's entirety...

November 25, 2014 /Marc Handelman
All is Information, Complexity, IETF, Information Security, SSL / TLS, EFF