Encrypted messaging

  • Resolved Ambyomoron

    (@josiah-s-carberry)


    7 years, 8 months ago

    Given that the email messages sent by the Wordfence plugin to administrators contains more or less sensitive information, wouldn’t it be nice if those messages were encrypted? I, for one, have configured my email client to use OpenPGP. But why, in general, are people so lazy about communicating all sorts of things in clear text when it is pretty simple and largely transparent to use encryption. Shouldn’t a security provider like Wordfence take the lead in making such features available?

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  • Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    7 years, 8 months ago

    That’s really outside of the scope of this plugin or any plugin. This is a security plugin, not a secure email plugin. It uses the same mail delivery system as any WordPress plugin and designing an email replacement is a “non-trivia task”.

    Try this plugin.

    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/wp-pgp-encrypted-emails/

    As it’s PGP and/or S/MIME you will need to know what you are doing to use that plugin. Encrypted messaging is not just a toggle son/off switch.

    Thread Starter Ambyomoron

    (@josiah-s-carberry)

    7 years, 8 months ago

    Well, I guess there are different opinions about whether security events should be communicated in a secure way.

    But even if one were to install an email encryption plugin, since Wordfence does NOT give the option to send text email (as opposed to html email), such encryption would be largely impractical, because the decrypted message would appear as html source code, even if the email client knew how to interpret html.

    wfalaa

    (@wfalaa)

    7 years, 8 months ago

    Hi @josiah-s-carberry

    I’ve logged the “Ability to choose between text or html emails” as a feature request to our team.

    Thanks for your suggestion!

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