Punching holes in nomx, the world’s “most secure” communications protocol

April 27, 2017

Enlarge / Artist's impression of a nomx product under the scrutiny of security researchers. (credit: Aurich/ThinkStock/Nomx)

This article was originally published on Scott Helme's blog and is reprinted here with his permission.

I was recently invited to take part in some research by BBC Click, alongside Professor Alan Woodward, to analyze a device that had quite a lot of people all excited. With slick marketing, catchy tag lines and some pretty bold claims about its security, nomx claims to have cracked e-mail security once and for all. Down the rabbit hole we go!

nomx

You can find the official nomx site at nomx.com and right away you will see how secure this device is.

The nomx site as it looked prior to the publication of this piece.

The nomx site as it looked prior to the publication of this piece. (credit: nomx)

"Everything else is insecure."

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Punching holes in nomx, the world’s “most secure” communications protocol

April 27, 2017

Enlarge / Artist's impression of a nomx product under the scrutiny of security researchers. (credit: Aurich/ThinkStock/Nomx)

This article was originally published on Scott Helme's blog and is reprinted here with his permission.

I was recently invited to take part in some research by BBC Click, alongside Professor Alan Woodward, to analyze a device that had quite a lot of people all excited. With slick marketing, catchy tag lines and some pretty bold claims about its security, nomx claims to have cracked e-mail security once and for all. Down the rabbit hole we go!

nomx

You can find the official nomx site at nomx.com and right away you will see how secure this device is.

The nomx site as it looked prior to the publication of this piece.

The nomx site as it looked prior to the publication of this piece. (credit: nomx)

"Everything else is insecure."

Read 88 remaining paragraphs | Comments