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Google Trying Out End-to-End Email Encryption

posted by martyb on Wednesday June 04 2014, @04:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the but-we-know-who-your-friends-are dept.

Angry Jesus writes:

Today Google announced the alpha release of a Chrome plugin that works with their Gmail service to enable end-to-end encryption for email sent through their system. This will reduce Google's ability to data-mine the content of messages, but it won't stop anyone from tracking senders and recipients. Their plugin is based on OpenPGP and they are publishing the source code.

With a focus on ease-of-use lets hope that this plugin is enough to start a broader movement towards end-to-end encryption for all email, regardless of provider.

Editor's Note: This is an early release of the code and should not be relied upon just yet. Google invites the community to test and evaluate the extension; it is even eligible for their Vulnerability Reward Program.

 
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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by emg on Wednesday June 04 2014, @06:33PM

    by emg (3464) on Wednesday June 04 2014, @06:33PM (#51282)

    Wasn't there a Usenet group which used to be used for precisely that; people would post PGP-encrypted messages into the group and the recipient would extract them?

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