Gmail Encryption. Encrypt Email Before Sending... Passwords Shared Verbally.
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Staten Island, NY Posted: 9/7/2015 1:00:00 AM
For your eyes only.
If you wrote an email that you absolutely, positively want to be read by one person... how could you do it?
If you put it in a regular email, there's no guarantee it will remain private. First of all, Google's server can read it. Although it's just a search engine, it does mean that their server will potentially use some of that information to determine what kinds of ads you'll see on millions of websites, which could indirectly reveal the nature of your messages. For example, a friend once sent me an email asking me my opinion about a cordless electric lawnmower, and I started to see a ton of ads on dozens of websites even before I read the email.
Second, if somebody gains access to your cellphone, or your computer after you've already logged on, they can easily read your messages, so that's not secure.
Even if nobody accesses your account on one of your devices... what if they access the sender's account? Or in extreme cases, what if you or the sender
The bottom line is traditional methods can't guarantee a message remains private.
Right now, the most secure way is to pre-encrypt it as an attachment, then share the password with the other party.
If you encrypt the file using MS Word or WinZip, the recipient can only read the file if you shared the password with them verbally. Wouldn't it be great if Gmail had this functionality built-in? All it would need to do is ask you for a password before sending... then it can encrypt the message before sending and your message will remain private and can only be read by the people you shared the password with.
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
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