alt.hn

4/1/2025 at 3:20:26 PM

New in Gmail: Making E2E encrypted emails easy to use for all organizations

 https://workspace.google.com/blog/identity-and-security/gmail-easy-end-to-end-encryption-all-businesses

by skim

4/1/2025 at 8:23:17 PM

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.

by irq-1

4/1/2025 at 10:05:48 PM

That's just absurd. Requiring both a specific (paid) email provider and specific (both funded by ads) browsers is a joke.

by SahAssar

4/2/2025 at 2:15:22 AM

Why?

by ariwilson

4/3/2025 at 1:15:13 AM

Email exists between providers in its current form because there weren't people trying to figure out how to insert themselves in between so they can make money. Justify needing a better reason

by Larrikin

4/1/2025 at 10:52:43 PM

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.

by ninjastar99

4/2/2025 at 7:33:20 AM

Google have a history of releasing products on april 1st, gmail itself was right?

by hcaz

4/1/2025 at 10:31:22 PM

> 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?

by rlpb

4/2/2025 at 9:30:43 AM

ProtonMail downloads the whole mailbox to browser storage to support fulltext search.

by saint_yossarian

4/3/2025 at 1:11:31 AM

Whew!

by moralestapia

4/1/2025 at 11:54:27 PM

Random unpolished idea: a (local) search engine that runs when seeing the email and stores the keywords encrypted in its index..

So if you're looking for "Nigerian prince" it will look up "Avtrevna cevapr" and return references to the emails containing that term.

by netsharc

4/2/2025 at 1:17:50 PM

Is that an April fools joke? Proper encryption suites don't produce something that looks like a Caesar cipher, it's just a solid block of seemingly random data. You can't really index something like the words inside an email unless you first decrypt it.

by wildzzz

4/1/2025 at 9:54:07 PM

Judging from the screencast, this UX is going to be a great gift for scammers.

by d332

4/2/2025 at 12:28:39 AM

I mean, this is almost the same as the external Office 365 screens for encrypted mail just with Google’s design language, so maybe it doesn’t happen as often in practice?

by easton

4/2/2025 at 6:50:49 AM

Google and privacy is like Zuckerberg and moral or JD Vance and self-reflection. Only on april 1.

by cachedthing0

4/2/2025 at 12:11:42 PM

Is this a .gov selling feature they are letting us mere mortal corporations play with?

by blitzar

4/1/2025 at 11:04:13 PM

This is like their 3rd or 4th attempt to do encrypted email.

by commandersaki

4/2/2025 at 4:46:14 AM

April Fool's!

by CyanLite2

4/2/2025 at 4:12:41 PM

Ummmmm, E2E on a JavaScript-infested website?

No thanks. Just, no.

by egberts