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SMTP over TLS is very common today. It's not guaranteed, but many emails sent between major providers should actually be encrypted in transit. Gmail actually fl
by JeremyNT 5y ago
SMTP over TLS is very common today. It's not guaranteed, but many emails sent between major providers should actually be encrypted in transit. Gmail actually flags email that was received without TLS with a little red icon indicating its relative insecurity.
Back in the 90s, though... not so much.
- dredmorbius 5y agoSMTP over TLS is first proposed in RFC 2487, dated January of 1999, AFAIU. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2487 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2487 Actual widespread implementation didn't occur until the 2010s. STARTLS Everywhere launched in 2014. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/winding-down-starttls-everywhere-project-and-future-secure-email https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/winding-down-starttls-... Google have tracked the prevalence of TLS-based email connections ... since 2014: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safer-email https://transparencyreport.google.com/safer-email