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Comcast plans to encrypt email exchanged with Google's Gmail |
June 04, 2014
Comcast plans to work with Google to encrypt email exchanged between its own servers and Gmail, a Comcast spokesman said on Tuesday night.Comcast supports Transport Layer Service encryption for email messages, and Comcast employees “plan to ramp up with Gmail in next few weeks,” a Comcast spokesman said via a Twitter message. More details will be revealed at the Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group meeting next week, he said, which will be held in Brussels. Comcast is a meeting sponsor.In response to growing customer concerns about email messages being slurped up and examined by government agencies, Google released a new addition to its transparency report on Tuesday, revealing that roughly half of the email sent to its Gmail servers isn’t encrypted. It also announced plans for a tool to encrypt email messages securely from the sender all the way to the recipient.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2359446/comcast-plans-to-encrypt-email-exchaged-with-googles-gmail.html#tk.rss_all
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