Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Google: 40% to 50% of users did not encrypt e-mail

When you send an e-mail to a friend,you must hope them can be the only readers to check the contents.But in fact,when a message from send to receive,among the road,there are many eyes covetously with it.This is why people are still accustomed to using envelopes,but not the postcards to send a message-send email on the web, the situation encountered similar.

Send E-mail in the online course, a bit like a relay race, in the process, a lot of "messengers" are exposed to this email.But relatively speaking, those encrypted e-mail, will have to be more safely.
In the latest issue of "Transparency Report", Google in-depth analytical encryption to protect e-mail.


Gmail has always supported the use of "Transport Layer Security" (TLS) and automatically encrypted during transmission. But most importantly, the message both exchangers must support the job (Gmail can not do it alone).

Google's data show that although many service providers have enabled encryption, but there are still 40% to 50% of users, unencrypted e-mail and sent it.
According to that people have been looking for a more powerful e-mail security features, Google also launched for the Chrome browser, and easier "end to end" (End-to-End) extension.

Finally, the company also encourages users to choose a strong password, and follow the prompts security center, extra layer of security measures. Only when all action came in the mail security will be more secure.

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