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Yahoo's Email Encryption Plugin Code Awaits Expert Review For Security

Calendar Mar 16, 2015 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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Yahoo released the source code for a plugin that will enable end-to-end encryption of email messages, a planned data-security improvement prompted by disclosures of U.S. National Security Agency snooping. The company is asking security experts to look at its code, published on GitHub, and report vulnerabilities, wrote Alex Stamos, Yahoo

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