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Re: [LUG] gpg security flaw

 

On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 01:21:16PM +0100, Adrian Midgley wrote:
>    I've only used GPG/PGP for email by encrypting text and then pasting it
>    into an email or attaching an encrypted file.
> 
>    That seems to leave out the problems with HTML and mail client/browser
>    behaviours.
> 
>    I'm not convinced that giving someone an encrypted message to pass on for
>    you to where you want it to only be read is entirely logical.
>    Sending a message by whatever means (will X make contact with machine Y
>    where he may find something to his interest),
>    or having a point to point pull contact (I'm X at the appointed moment,
>    have you anything for me?)
>    and passing the encrypted object then seems more straightforward.
>    On Sat, 19 May 2018 at 10:47 Simon Waters <[1]simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 

Rather that using PGP/GPG which seems to work with all email clients, it 
looks instead that with the release of GDPR every company is only providing 
email through its own webportal...

Why can't someone come up with a screen scraping service for emails and 
then forward to me via GPG/GPG

-- 
Henry
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verified digital signature is not binding.
Sat 19 May 14:15:54 BST 2018

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