Today, Google announces that it is making Gmail even more secure. With so much talk about enryption in the news nowadays, the search giant is enhancing its email service with improved TLS encryption. How is it doing this? By working with other email providers, such as Microsoft to make sure encrypted emails remain that way in transmission.
"To help ensure TLS encryption works as intended, we've teamed-up with a variety of industry partners -- including Comcast, Microsoft, and Yahoo! -- to submit a draft IETF specification for 'SMTP Strict Transport Security'. With this new proposed standard, companies can ensure that mail will only be delivered through encrypted channels, and that any encryption failures should be reported for further analysis, helping shine the spotlight on any malfeasance occurring around the Internet", explains Nicolas Lidzborski, Gmail Security Engineering lead and Jonathan Pevarnek, Jigsaw engineer.
Lidzborski and Pevarnek further explain, "Safe Browsing already protects Gmail users by identifying potentially dangerous links in messages. Starting this week, Gmail users will begin to see warnings if they click these links, further extending this protection to different web browsers and email apps".
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~ Brian Fagioli
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