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06-04-2014, 10:52 PM
Google Chrome Extension Lets Users Send Encrypted Emails
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Google (http://mashable.com/category/google/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) has plans to make its email more secure, using add-on encryption software that will work like any other extension for Google Chrome.
On its security blog Tuesday (http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/06/making-end-to-end-encryption-easier-to.html), Google an**unced it’s preparing a Chrome extension called End-to-End to make heavy-duty encryption easier for anyone to use.
See also: The Comparative Anatomy of the Xbox One vs. PlayStation 4 (http://mashable.com/2013/11/21/xbox-one-vs-playstation-4-chart/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
Google already offers HTTPS, but its own email stats (https://hameed.nwar.uk/vb/www.google.com/transparencyreport/saferemail/) show only about half of Gmail messages are secured this way.
HTTPS does protect Gmail messages while they’re in transit — the TP in HTTPS stands for "transfer protocol." The OpenPGP standard Google is using in End-to-End will help secure Gmail messages while they’re at rest on the sender or receiver’s machine. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/04/googles-chrome-email-encryption/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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Google (http://mashable.com/category/google/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) has plans to make its email more secure, using add-on encryption software that will work like any other extension for Google Chrome.
On its security blog Tuesday (http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/06/making-end-to-end-encryption-easier-to.html), Google an**unced it’s preparing a Chrome extension called End-to-End to make heavy-duty encryption easier for anyone to use.
See also: The Comparative Anatomy of the Xbox One vs. PlayStation 4 (http://mashable.com/2013/11/21/xbox-one-vs-playstation-4-chart/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
Google already offers HTTPS, but its own email stats (https://hameed.nwar.uk/vb/www.google.com/transparencyreport/saferemail/) show only about half of Gmail messages are secured this way.
HTTPS does protect Gmail messages while they’re in transit — the TP in HTTPS stands for "transfer protocol." The OpenPGP standard Google is using in End-to-End will help secure Gmail messages while they’re at rest on the sender or receiver’s machine. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/04/googles-chrome-email-encryption/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
More about Google (http://mashable.com/category/google/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Email (http://mashable.com/category/email/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Tech (http://mashable.com/tech/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), and Apps Software (http://mashable.com/apps-software/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/8z0lV9djhFI