Critics point to cracks in proposed German encrypted e-mail system
Some German IT experts are raising doubts about Germany's DE-Mail encryption system by pointing to what they call a security problem in the proposed e-mail network, which was opened to the public for registration earlier this month.
E-mail sent through DE-Mail's servers may be decrypted and re-encrypted up to two times before reaching its target, possibly giving third parties access to its content.
Deutsche Telekom is one of the companies behind the DE-Mail project and has dismissed security concerns by stressing that the decryption occurs for just a fraction of a second and that it is only carried out on servers that have met government security standards.
