Mailvelope: How to send and receive encrypted emails – Gadgets Now

You use your email ID to communicate with friends and family. It holds the key to all your online subscriptions whether social networks or cloud apps like data storage and photo albums. Banks and other financial institutions use it to authenticate your identity, and so much more. So, the question begging to be asked is how safe is your email communication?.

Well, theres TLS...

For their part, service providers such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo use Transport Layer Security (TLS) for email transmission. In simple terms, this means your message is encrypted while it is in transit from one secure email server to another.

That said, TLS is not the same as end-to-end encryption. It only provides encryption between the user and the service provider. End-to-end encryption, on the other hand, works to protect a message between the sender and the recipient.

Consider, with end-to-end encryption, your email gets encrypted at your end and gets decrypted only after reaching the recipient's device.

However, in TLS, the message gets encrypted at your end and decrypted at the server. The server then encrypts the message depending on whether or not the recipient server also uses TLS. Now, if youre uncertain if your recipients email server is secure, you might want to consider Mailvelope for complete end-to-end encryption.

http://www.mailvelope.com

Mailvelope is a free browser extensionavailable for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edgethat lets you encrypt your email before it leaves your computer.

It is supported by all major service providers, including Gmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo and Zoho Mail. Besides, Mailvelope is an Open Source project which means its development process is fully transparent and is also subject to regular security audits.

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