[LINK] Gmail and crypto

[Karl Auer]

On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 18:12 -0700, Scott Howard wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> > To the best of my knowledge, the VAST majority of email is shipped
> > between servers in clear text.
> Facebook's data disagrees.
> "... nearly 60% of all emails are sent via an encrypted connection ..."

That's good news. I venture to suggest that it is only fairly recently
that this became the case. And also, it's worth pointing out that 40% of
all Facebook's emails are still NOT encrypted in transit.

And of course this is just Facebook. Unless 60% of facebook can be
assumed to be 60% of everything (which I think would be going a step too
far), it is still unwise to assume that your email is encrypted all the
way to the recipient.

And it remains unwise to think that your email will be encrypted while
in storage on an email server.

Regards, K.

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