The latest events related to espionage carried out by the American security agency “NSA”, have led technology companies to rethink their financial security. Users of the services have lost confidence in some companies because they do not know whether they have handled their most secret data with a kiss.
The solution now is to show that there is an interest in reversing the situation. That's why Microsoft has announced that it will increase the security of data sent on Outlook.com, its email service and data from SkyDrive (the cloud storage service).
With this action, all communications sent by users or received from Microsoft servers will be encrypted. Thus, only Microsoft and the user's computer will have the key needed to decrypt the information. To make users even more relaxed, the encryption chosen by Microsoft uses technology Perfect Forward Secrecy, which generates temporary cryptographic keys, which guarantee that even if a communication is intercepted, it can not be deciphered (theoretically). The project to "shield" communications within the Microsoft network will end in the second half of 2014, until then, continue to take good care of your information.
The next step involves partnering with Google and other email providers, so that communication between users on different platforms is equally confidential. Fact that does not happen today.
[Via]: Veja
