How to use PGP encryption with Mozilla Thunderbird Email client

In my last article, we have learnt that how to encrypt our Emails using Gnu Privacy Guard. Previously we used Microsoft Outlook as a desktop mail client and a GpgOL plugin to handle encryption decryption of our communication. Since Microsoft is a US-based company, that has to follow all the laws ...

What Is PGP Encryption And How To Encrypt Your Emails

Now that we have enough details about how the NSA's Surveillance program, running for a long time against almost each country of this planet. Hundreds of top-secret NSA documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden already exposed that Spying projects like PRISM and MUSCULAR are tapping...

APPLE-SA-2013-12-16-1 Safari 6.1.1 and Safari 7.0.1

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 APPLE-SA-2013-12-16-1 Safari 6.1.1 and Safari 7.0.1 Safari 6.1.1 and Safari 7.0.1 are now available and address the following: Safari Available for: OS X Lion v10.7.5, OS X Lion Server v10.7.5, OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, OS X Mavericks v10.9 Impact:...

IT-Grundschutz M5.063: Einsatz von GnuPG oder PGP

IT-Grundschutz M5.063: Einsatz von GnuPG oder PGP. ACHTUNG: Dieser Test wird nicht mehr unterstützt. Er wurde ersetzt durch den entsprechenden Test der nun permanent and die aktuelle EL angepasst wird: OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.95062 Stand: 13. Ergänzungslieferung 13. EL. OpenVAS Vulnerability Te...

IT-Grundschutz M5.063: Einsatz von GnuPG oder PGP

IT-Grundschutz M5.063: Einsatz von GnuPG oder PGP. ACHTUNG: Dieser Test wird nicht mehr unterstützt. Er wurde ersetzt durch den entsprechenden Test der nun permanent and die aktuelle EL angepasst wird: OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.95062 Stand: 13. Ergänzungslieferung 13. EL. SPDX-FileCopyrightText:...

APPLE-SA-2013-11-14-1 iOS 7.0.4

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 APPLE-SA-2013-11-14-1 iOS 7.0.4 iOS 7.0.4 is now available and addresses the following: App Store Available for: iPhone 4 and later, iPod touch 5th generation and later, iPad 2 and later Impact: App and In-App purchases may be completed with...

RedHat Update for gnupg RHSA-2013:1458-01

Check for the Version of gnupg OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for gnupg RHSA-2013:1458-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms...

CentOS Update for gnupg CESA-2013:1458 centos5

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Scientific Linux Security Update : gnupg2 on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20131024)

A denial of service flaw was found in the way GnuPG parsed certain compressed OpenPGP packets. An attacker could use this flaw to send specially crafted input data to GnuPG, making GnuPG enter an infinite loop when parsing data. CVE-2013-4402 It was found that importing a corrupted public key int...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: gnupg security update

An updated gnupg package that fixes multiple security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, ar...

Debian DSA-2773-1 : gnupg - several vulnerabilities

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in GnuPG, the GNU privacy guard, a free PGP replacement. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2013-4351 When a key or subkey had its 'key flags' subpacket set to all bits off, GnuPG currently would treat the...

Debian DSA-2774-1 : gnupg2 - several vulnerabilities

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in GnuPG 2, the GNU privacy guard, a free PGP replacement. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2013-4351 When a key or subkey had its 'key flags' subpacket set to all bits off, GnuPG currently would treat t...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2774-1 (gnupg2 - several vulnerabilities)

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in GnuPG 2, the GNU privacy guard, a free PGP replacement. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2013-4351When a key or subkey had its key flags subpacket set to all bits off, GnuPG currently would treat the key...

DSA-2773-1 gnupg - several

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DSA-2774-1 gnupg2 - several

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USN-1987-1: GnuPG vulnerabilities

Daniel Kahn Gillmor discovered that GnuPG treated keys with empty usage flags as being valid for all usages. CVE-2013-4351 Taylor R Campbell discovered that GnuPG incorrectly handled certain OpenPGP messages. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially-crafted message,...

APPLE-SA-2013-09-12-2 Safari 5.1.10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 APPLE-SA-2013-09-12-2 Safari 5.1.10 Safari 5.1.10 is now available and addresses the following: JavaScriptCore Available for: Mac OS X v10.6.8, Mac OS X Server v10.6.8 Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an unexpected applicatio...

APPLE-SA-2013-09-18-1 iTunes 11.1

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 APPLE-SA-2013-09-18-1 iTunes 11.1 iTunes 11.1 is now available and addresses the following: iTunes Available for: Windows 7, Vista, XP SP2 or later Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an unexpected application termination or...

Oracle Java - 'ShortComponentRaster.verify()' Memory Corruption

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Packet Storm Advisory 2013-0917-1 | | http://packetstormsecurity.com/ | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Title: Oracle...

Fedora 19 : perl-Crypt-DSA-1.17-10.fc19 (2013-15786)

As taught by the '09 Debian PGP disaster relating to DSA, the randomness source is extremely important. On systems without /dev/random, Crypt::DSA falls back to using Data::Random. Data::Random uses rand, about which the perldoc says 'rand is not cryptographically secure. You should not rely on i...