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Re: HTML mail (was: chromebook)



On Jo, 11 iul 19, 12:31:07, John Crawley wrote:
> 
> I was never trying to claim that it was OK to send messages as html - I
> always use plain text myself - but I thought there might be something to be
> said for user agents that could deal with html in some sane way, and without
> exposing the recipient to attacks. Simply not following any web links would
> be enough I'd have thought? Or are there some more subtle attack paths?

Yes, look up the EFAIL vulnerability (I posted a link in another 
message). It enabled a potential attacker to trick e-mail clients 
parsing html e-mail to decrypt an (old) encrypted message.

In most cases users only had to open the message.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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