As far as I can tell, the "encrypted email" Google is making a song and dance about is only encrypted between the sender and Google (or the sender and their email server, more generally).
To the best of my knowledge, the VAST majority of email is shipped between servers in clear text. That's the greater part of its journey unless both sender and recipient happen to have the same email server. It's certainly a good thing that email is being protected at least as far as your email server, but even if you are using an email server that supported encrypted transmissions, don't think that your email is thus protected for the whole trip to the recipient. And of course, the protection is meaningless if Google or your ISP are happy to hand over stuff to the local Three Letter Acronym, because it's not encrypted ON the servers, just on the way TO and FROM them. If you are actually concerned about the privacy or secrecy of your emails (and those are not the same thing) then you need to get a certificate and start doing S/MIME or (even better) figure out GPG/PGP. Then your actual emails will be encryoted and/or signed, not just the transmissions thereof. Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer ([email protected]) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: EC67 61E2 C2F6 EB55 884B E129 072B 0AF0 72AA 9882 Old fingerprint: B862 FB15 FE96 4961 BC62 1A40 6239 1208 9865 5F9A _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
