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The email may not be encrypted, but as long as the data transfer was made under a secure protocol, there's not much of a difference. Only difference is that Goo
by salman89 14y ago
The email may not be encrypted, but as long as the data transfer was made under a secure protocol, there's not much of a difference. Only difference is that Google themselves can view your email in plaintext. But in terms of a man in the middle attack, I'm failing to see the difference.
- antidoh 14y agoFrom your house to Google is encrypted, but is it transmitted encrypted to the recipient's email provider?
- salman89 14y agoAh, I see. Thanks, I can buy that argument. A good argument can then also be that you should never trust emails outside your own provider? If you are sending to an @gmail to @gmail, you should be covered a bit better?