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New in Gmail: Making E2E encrypted emails easy to use for all organizations

https://support.google.com/a/answer/14309952

> Users with a consumer Google Account (such as Gmail users) can't access client-side encrypted content, send encrypted email, or participate in client-side encrypted meetings.

> To view or edit client-side encrypted content, users must use either the Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge (Chromium) browser.

2 days agoirq-1

That's just absurd. Requiring both a specific (paid) email provider and specific (both funded by ads) browsers is a joke.

2 days agoSahAssar

Why?

2 days agoariwilson

Email exists between providers in its current form because there weren't people trying to figure out how to insert themselves in between so they can make money. Justify needing a better reason

a day agoLarrikin
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2 days ago

Thought this was an April Fools joke - please tell me it is! That UI looks exactly like a phishing email. And then to make users login once they click it? Exactly like a phishing email.

2 days agoninjastar99

Google have a history of releasing products on april 1st, gmail itself was right?

2 days agohcaz

> When the recipient is a Gmail user (enterprise or personal), Gmail sends an E2EE email. The email is automatically decrypted in the recipient's inbox, and the recipient can use Gmail in a familiar way.

So what happens with Search?

2 days agorlpb

ProtonMail downloads the whole mailbox to browser storage to support fulltext search.

2 days agosaint_yossarian

Whew!

a day agomoralestapia

Random unpolished idea: a (local) search engine that runs when seeing the email and stores the keywords encrypted in its index..

So if you're looking for "Nigerian prince" it will look up "Avtrevna cevapr" and return references to the emails containing that term.

2 days agonetsharc

Is that an April fools joke? Proper encryption suites don't produce something that looks like a Caesar cipher, it's just a solid block of seemingly random data. You can't really index something like the words inside an email unless you first decrypt it.

2 days agowildzzz

Judging from the screencast, this UX is going to be a great gift for scammers.

2 days agod332

I mean, this is almost the same as the external Office 365 screens for encrypted mail just with Google’s design language, so maybe it doesn’t happen as often in practice?

2 days agoeaston

Google and privacy is like Zuckerberg and moral or JD Vance and self-reflection. Only on april 1.

2 days agocachedthing0

This is like their 3rd or 4th attempt to do encrypted email.

2 days agocommandersaki

Is this a .gov selling feature they are letting us mere mortal corporations play with?

2 days agoblitzar

April Fool's!

2 days agoCyanLite2

Ummmmm, E2E on a JavaScript-infested website?

No thanks. Just, no.