Venafi: First three months of Clinton private email was unencrypted and unauthenticated

During the first three months of Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State, the private mail server she used for sending emails was unencrypted and unauthenticated using digital certificates, according to a study of her mail domain by security firm Venafi.

That means that during those three months the server – clintonemail.com – would be open to eavesdropping and compromise, the company says. The security issues are troubling because now former Secretary of State Clinton has come under fire for using a private email server to conduct official business. Clinton has defended her private system and said it was secure.

The domain was registered before Clinton was sworn in as Secretary of State Jan. 21, 2009, and the first certificate for it was registered in March 29, 2009, Venafi says, based on data it gathered using its new TrustNet service.

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Network World Tim Greene