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Microsoft thumbs its nose at the NSA, hardening the encryption used for both Outlook and OneDrive

Accepted submission by Fnord666 at 2014-07-04 22:24:10
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Fnord666 [soylentnews.org] writes:

According to a recent article [theregister.co.uk] in El Reg, "Microsoft has flipped the switch to activate stronger encryption on its OneDrive and Outlook.com cloud services as part of a broader effort to make it harder for the NSA and other spying agencies to snoop on its customers' data." Specifically, outlook.com has begun using TLS for both incoming and outgoing connections whenever possible. Microsoft has also added support for PFS, or Perfect Forward Secrecy, for key exchange whenever possible.

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