Published on: 2025-04-28 17:23:30
*Authors in alphabetical order – all contributed equally Abstract Censors worldwide have long censored unencrypted HTTP traffic. In this blog post, we show that a specific HTTP version—unencrypted HTTP/2—is unaffected by censorship in China and Iran. We access otherwise censored websites in both countries over unencrypted HTTP/2. Despite no web browser implementing unencrypted HTTP/2, we detect that up to 6.28% of websites support unencrypted HTTP/2 traffic. To aid the community and ease futur
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When Google announced Tuesday that end-to-end encrypted messages were coming to Gmail for business users, some people balked, noting it wasn’t true E2EE as the term is known in privacy and security circles. Others wondered precisely how it works under the hood. Here’s a description of what the new service does and doesn’t do, as well as some of the basic security that underpins it. When Google uses the term E2EE in this context, it means that an email is encrypted inside Chrome, Firefox, or jus
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When Google announced Tuesday that end-to-end encrypted messages were coming to Gmail for business users, some people balked, noting it wasn’t true E2EE as the term is known in privacy and security circles. Others wondered precisely how it works under the hood. Here’s a description of what the new service does and doesn’t do, as well as some of the basic security that underpins it. When Google uses the term E2EE in this context, it means that an email is encrypted inside Chrome, Firefox, or jus
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Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Strong encryption is the foundation of just about every security and privacy-related feature in the modern computing landscape. Your smartphone is encrypted by default, so its contents are only available when you unlock it with biometrics or a PIN. Your Windows PC is encrypted with BitLocker, and your MacBook is encrypted with FileVault. Also: How I got 15GB of Gmail storage for free - and without losing any files Every webpage you visit
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Security researcher Yohanes Nugroho has released a decryptor for the Linux variant of Akira ransomware, which utilizes GPU power to retrieve the decryption key and unlock files for free. Nugroho developed the decryptor after being asked for help from a friend, deeming the encrypted system solvable within a week, based on how Akira generates encryption keys using timestamps. The project ended up taking three weeks due to unforeseen complexities, and the researcher spent $1,200 on GPU resources
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It’s been less than a year since iPhones were granted the ability to send messages to Green Bubbles unfettered, and only now is proper end-to-end encryption making an appearance. Better late than never. The GSM Association announced new specifications for RCS, requiring it to be end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) based on a protocol called the Messaging Layer Security (MLS). The organization laid out the plan in a press release, citing the need to provide users with “the highest level of privacy and se
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 04:00:00
Over the past decade, encrypted communication has become the norm for billions of people. Every day, Signal, iMessage, and WhatsApp keep billions of messages, photos, videos, and calls private by using end-to-end encryption by default—while Zoom, Discord, and various other services all have options to enable the protection. But despite the technology’s mainstream rise, long-standing threats to weaken encryption keep piling up. Over the past few months, there has been a surge in government and l
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Apple has issued a legal challenge against the British government over a demand to create a backdoor for encrypted iCloud accounts, as reported by Financial Times . The company has filed a complaint in the hopes to reverse the order. The iPhone maker made its appeal to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), which is an independent judicial body. This comes after a leak revealed the order from the UK government, which tasked Apple with building the aforementioned backdoor for iCloud encrypted
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