Yahoo launches "On-demand password" and encrypted mail service

Source: Internet
Author: User

"Yesky news Channel News" with the continuous development of science and technology, now the Internet security has become the most concerned about the topic of science and technology industry, but also become the focus of attention in the world. According to foreign media reports, Sunday the world's first large network service provider, the United States famous Internet portal Yahoo in southwest South China Congress launched a new "on-demand password" service and encrypted mail service.

Several well-known companies, including Sony and Apple, have had the most famous network security time ever. Many companies are also trying to solve the problem of weak passwords for users.
The so-called "on-demand password", that is, users can use Yahoo sent to the user's mobile phone password login yahoo account, and do not have to remember their password. Yahoo's chief information security officer, Alex Stamos, said the service would be launched by the end of the year.
Yahoo also showcased its latest "end-to-end" encryption system. The system is designed to be more convenient to encrypt e-mail, Yahoo also introduced the system's Chrome plug-in, but still in beta phase. This system is not automatically enabled to protect all e-mail messages. Alex Stamos says he wants users to only enable security for those particularly sensitive messages.
The system does not encrypt recipient, subject, and timestamp information, but the contents of the message itself will be visible only to the sender and receiver. Yahoo hopes to launch this end-to-end encryption system by the end of this year.

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