New PGP/GPG Vulnerability?

Kai Raven kai.raven@t-online.de
Tue Aug 13 12:43:01 2002


Hello Graham,

On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 07:32:17 +0100
Graham <graham.todd@ntlworld.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday 13 Aug 2002 6:16 am, Brent Miller wrote:
> > From
> > http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=582&e=1&cid=582&u=/n
> >m/20020813/wr_nm/tech_hackattacks_dc_2

and

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/08/12/encryption.flaw.ap/index.html

> The story you quote relates to the S/MIME problems of IE, which do not
> affect PGP/GPG.

mmh, according to the CNN article, there are two separate flaws, the
one regarding to the Outlook/Plugin exploit and a new one, discovered
some weeks after the Plugin stuff ? 


Ciao
Kai

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