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Because there is no practical method to do so. Email was never designed to be end-to-end encrypted and implementing end-to-end encryption would mean that everyb
by LeonM 8y ago
Because there is no practical method to do so. Email was never designed to be end-to-end encrypted and implementing end-to-end encryption would mean that everybody must switch to an end-to-end encryption capable protocol.
Google is not resisting, they would implement end-to-end if they could, but they can't.
FWIW: As long as the email does not leave Google (i.e. an email between 2 gmail inboxes) it is actually already encrypted end-to-end (AFIAK).
- OrgNet 8y agoThey could easily do it for communications between gmail users... they just don't want to do it. > FWIW: As long as the email does not leave Google (i.e. an email between 2 gmail inboxes) it is actually already encrypted end-to-end (AFIAK). no, end-to-end means from user1-to-user2, not from user1-to-gmail and then from gmail-to-user2 (ie: gmail should never be able to see the content of your communications if it was truly end-to-end)