ISIS striving to convince experts it can use encryption

Published January 27, 2016 12:25am ET



The Islamic State is striving to convince the world it knows how to use encrypted communication.

Opening images in a video published on Sunday “suggest that ISIS fighters were using the data encryption software PGP for secure communications,” the Middle East Media Research Institute reports. The video, which features statements by the perpetrators of the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris, allegedly contains details of a future attack planned for the United Kingdom.

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