KAJICHO KIVULI
JF-Expert Member
- Jul 30, 2013
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Today, more and more service providers have started to realize the importance of encryption of online communication. They are working on certain technologies for the protection of these conversations.
The most top listed technologies take inPerfect Forward Secrecy and HTTP HSTS. There is another technology called SMTP STARTTLS that has caught the attention of some researchers at Facebook.
In a report released today, a plea has been made in which organizations are asked to deploy STARTTLS. It is an extension to SMTP, which lets the servers and clients encrypt their messages. The conversation conducted between the two has to support the extension otherwise the message delivered will be sent in plain text.
It has been revealed by Facebook that the STARTTLS support has achieved the critical mass. It is going to back them up, which features 76% unique MX host names that receive emails from Facebook in the form of notifications. FB has successfully encrypted 58% of its notification email messages.
