About this episode

The episode discusses the vulnerabilities in encrypted email and explores better modern alternatives.

There was a bug in an OpenPGP library which finally gave us an excuse to tear encrypted email via PGP to shreds. Our special guest William Woodruff joined us to help explain the vuln and indulge our gnashing of teeth on why email was never meant to be encrypted and how other modern tools do the job much, much better. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoL3LfIozJo Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2025/08/22/stop-using-encrypted-email-with-william-woodruff ...

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