The Dream Of Usable Email Encryption Is Still A Work In Progress

ronjor · Mar 26, 2016

Written by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Staff Writer March 25, 2016 // 12:30 PM EST

Both Google and Yahoo are working on an implementation of the open source standard OpenPGP that works entirely within the browser. The two projects are a work in progress, so some details might change, but the idea is to create a browser extension that will deal with all the pains of using PGP, making it as easy as possible to use, and allowing users to send emails that nobody—including Google and Yahoo—can read, other than the sender and the recipient.
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TheWindBringeth · Mar 26, 2016

The private key will be stored locally inside the browser, while the public key will be uploaded to centralized servers maintained by Google and Yahoo. Then, when the user wants to send an email to somebody else who also has a PGP key, his or her browser will automatically download the other person’s public key and encrypt the email.
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... thereby allowing Google/Yahoo to build a graph of who is sending encrypted email to whom, even when neither party is using a Google/Yahoo email system?

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