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Old 14th May 2018
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Default Efail: Vulnerabilities in email clients allow decryption of OpenPGP and S/MIME

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Here are some strategies to prevent EFAIL attacks:

Short term: No decryption in email client. The best way to prevent EFAIL attacks is to only decrypt S/MIME or PGP emails in a separate application outside of your email client. Start by removing your S/MIME and PGP private keys from your email client, then decrypt incoming encrypted emails by copy&pasting the ciphertext into a separate application that does the decryption for you. That way, the email clients cannot open exfiltration channels. This is currently the safest option with the downside that the process gets more involved.

Short term: Disable HTML rendering. The EFAIL attacks abuse active content, mostly in the form of HTML images, styles, etc. Disabling the presentation of incoming HTML emails in your email client will close the most prominent way of attacking EFAIL. Note that there are other possible backchannels in email clients which are not related to HTML but these are more difficult to exploit.
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Old 25th May 2018
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https://protonmail.com/blog/pgp-efail-statement/
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These statements are highly misleading and potentially dangerous. PGP is not broken. The vulnerabilities identified by eFail are not flaws with the OpenPGP protocol itself but rather flaws in certain implementations of PGP, including in Apple Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird, and Microsoft Outlook. Many other commonly used software based upon PGP are not affected by the eFail vulnerability in any way, as the researchers themselves point out in their paper.

As an open standard, anybody can implement PGP, and it comes as no surprise that some implementations have security weaknesses. However, this does not mean PGP itself is broken.
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Old 5th June 2018
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Relevant vulnerable clients sheet per platform; oddly enough, I've always used Claws/Sylpheed and (neo)mutt only. AFAIK old but gold Pegasus for DOS/Windows is not affected either
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