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An attack on a key server and the subsequent poisoning of the certificates of two OpenPGP contributors — Robert Hansen and Daniel Gillmor — has created a situation where the only safe approach is for people to stop retrieving data from the SKS keyserver network.

European researchers have been forced to advance the announcement of what they claim are vulnerabilities in commonly used encryption technologies used in email after the German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung carried a report about their research which had been originally embargoed for release early Wednesday morning Australian time.

There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Thus spake the Bard. And Swiss company ProtonMail has done just this, launching an encrypted email service at a time when encryption is very much at the top of the tech agenda.