Summary: At Black Hat USA 2014, Yahoo's CISO announced in a presentation that consumers will be seeing end-to-end encryption in its Mail product by 2015.<\/p>\n
Today at Black Hat USA 2014, Yahoo's CISO announced in a presentation that consumers will be seeing end-to-end encryption in its Mail product by 2015. <\/p>\n
Announcing a new PGP plugin that piggybacks off of Google'sPGP plugin, Alex Stamos told the audience at his talkBuilding Safe Systems at Scale - Lessons from Six Months at Yahoothat this project has been a priority since he joined Yahoo Inc. six months ago. <\/p>\n
Recruited for the project is (now former) EFF staff technologist Yan Zhu. <\/p>\n
In the Thursday talk, Stamos told attendees that Yahoo is using the end-to-end encryption plugin that Google released a few months ago, with the plan of having both Yahoo Mail and Gmail able to exchange encrypted mail between the services seamlessly and easily. <\/p>\n
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The move is a step in the right direction for security teams endeavoring to bring ecncryption to consumers, which faces challenges around ease of use for the ordinary user. <\/p>\n
Encryption has followed security's traditional quandary of easy versus secure. Basically, if anything [in tech] is easy to use, lots of people will use it -- but security and simplicity seldom go hand-in-hand. <\/p>\n
Stamos directly referenced the 'post-Snowden era' of consumer privacy and security as the impetus for his push at Yahoo to his Black Hat audience. <\/p>\n
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