Facebook launches new ECC key encryption options

The social media network has unveiled support for a new set of public keys.
 
By Charlie Osborne for Zero Day | September 23, 2015
 
Facebook has added extra encryption options for users who wish to disguise their Internet activity.
 
On Tuesday, the social media giant announced support for OpenPGP's standard elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) public keys, including NIST curves P-256, P-384, and P-521.
 
The public key support builds upon Facebook's launch of OpenPGP key support in June. The support permits end-to-end encrypted notification emails to be sent from Facebook to your linked email accounts.
 
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