The gold standard for encrypted email is OpenPGP (PGP). Without mainstream support for end-to-end encrypted emails, users are stuck using software that has not evolved since the early 90s. 3 This ended up being a lost opportunity to make encryption and data protection more mainstream: similar to the impact of WhatsApp rolling out end-to-end encryption in 2016. 1 This feature would move beyond just implementing HTTPS (encrypting traffic between a client computer and the email server) to implement end-to-end encrypted email that would protect users’ emails from even Yahoo!’s servers 2 -but it didn’t happen. ![]() ![]() Back in 2014-about a year after Edward Snowden leaked documents on government spying-Alex Stamos was trying to make email a safer place from mass surveillance by rolling out encrypted emails for all Yahoo! users.
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