[HN Gopher] New in Gmail: Making E2E encrypted emails easy to us...
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New in Gmail: Making E2E encrypted emails easy to use for all
organizations
Author : skim
Score : 26 points
Date : 2025-04-01 15:20 UTC (7 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (workspace.google.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (workspace.google.com)
| irq-1 wrote:
| 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.
| SahAssar wrote:
| That's just absurd. Requiring both a specific (paid) email
| provider and specific (both funded by ads) browsers is a joke.
| d332 wrote:
| Judging from the screencast, this UX is going to be a great gift
| for scammers.
| rlpb wrote:
| > 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?
| ninjastar99 wrote:
| 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.
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