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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 04 2014, @09:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 04 2014, @09:16PM (#51359)

    Perhaps the plugin is safe, clean, and open, but remember that Google also makes the browser that runs the plugin, and you don't have all the Chrome source and can't verify the build. They don't have to mess with the plugin when they own the silently self-updating engine.