Web services provider Yahoo declared that its email connections are now encrypted by default.Starting now, all access to Yahoo Mail will be encrypted. Jeff Bonforte, the company's senior vice president of communications products said, “We are using Transport Layer Security (TLS)/Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) with 2048 bit digital certificates."
"Yahoo Mail Standard email protocols such as IMAPv4, POP3 and SMTP will be encrypted. The security will apply to the web and mobile interfaces, protecting message content, attachments, calendar items, and contacts. Mobile applications will also be encrypted," Bonforte said.
The encryption program was announced in October last year. Following revelations by former United States National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden, government spies was in fact tapping network communications between Google, Yahoo, and other web providers' data centers.
Responding to the spy agency's interception of data center links, Google started encrypting all internal networks in November last year to halt the large-scale wiretapping.
Microsoft has also said it will provide encryption for its web services this year. Office 365 message encryption will be available for purchase in the first quarter of 2014, Microsoft said.
0 comments:
Post a Comment