Subj : Gmail users can now send encrypted emails, even outside of their
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Fri Oct 03 2025 14:30:09

Gmail users can now send encrypted emails, even outside of their organization

Date:
Fri, 03 Oct 2025 13:22:00 +0000

Description:
Gmail users can send encrypted emails to all inboxes, but they may need to 
open a guest account.

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can now send E2EE emails to non-Gmail users, but its not quite as simple Only 
Workspace Enterprise Plus customers can use the feature Its still far more 
accessible than S/MIME 

Google is strengthening email security by offering client-side encryption to 
Gmail users, even if theyre sending to recipients with other email providers 
.. 

It means Gmail senders will be able to end-to-end encrypt (E2EE) emails 
across providers, for example, if sending from Gmail to Outlook, ensuring no 
unwarranted access is granted to the content of their message. 

However, theres a key difference in how recipients can open their emails, and 
it wont be quite as smooth as content landing straight in their inbox. Gmail 
users can send encrypted emails to all 

Gmail-to-Gmail E2EE emails show in the regular email because Google can take 
care of the infrastructure for both the sender and recipient, but because 
Google has no control over recipients infrastructure on other providers, 
theyll be directed to a guest Gmail account to open the mail. 

Still, it ensures business users can communicate securely without the hassle 
of exchanging keys or downloading specialized software. 

This capability, requiring minimal efforts for both IT teams and end users, 
abstracts away the traditional IT complexity and substandard user experiences 
of existing solutions, while preserving enhanced data sovereignty, privacy, 
and security controls, Google said. 

From launch, it will be available to Google Workspace Enterprise Plus 
customers with the Assured Controls add-on. Rollout has already started, but 
it could take until mid-October for all users to see the changes. 

In a separate blog post earlier in 2025, Google Workspace Senior Product 
Manager Johney Burke and Product Manager Julien Duplant criticized todays 
S/MIME protocol for being hard to work with, hence the effort to simplify 
cross-provider email encryption. 

But Google isnt the only company working on simplifying encryption. Proton 
also offers full E2EE for its own users as well as password-protected links 
for third parties to view encrypted mail. 

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