Google Moves End-To-End Email Encryption Project To GitHub
from the good-to-see dept
Back in June we wrote about Google's "End-to-End" project to enable full (real) end-to-end encryption in email via a Chrome extension. For years now, we've been among those arguing that Google should actually offer end-to-end encryption by default (which would make the company unable to read your emails). This isn't going that far, but making it much easier for individuals to truly encrypt their own emails (without any backdoors for the email provider) is definitely a big step forward. So it's good to see that the company has now moved the project to GitHub, and that Yahoo's Chief Security Officer, Alex Stamos, has been contributing to the project as well. Having two of the biggest webmail providers working together on an open source system for better encrypting emails end-to-end is a huge win for privacy and security. The project is still in its early days, and Google warns that it's not yet ready to release the extension in the Chrome Web Store, but it's great that things are moving forward. Of course, for those of you who can't wait, there already some extensions like Mailvelope that are pretty easy to use (though, some worry are not quite as secure as other options).Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Filed Under: email, encryption, end-to-end, open source
Companies: google, yahoo
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Can't everyone agree that we need to stop all of this data encryption crap for the sake of the children?
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Let them put up their firewalls and encryption, think of the money.. kids.
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Let them put up their firewalls and encryption, think of the money.. kids.
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True end-to-end encryption would prevent some value added feature from working...like the ability for Google to scan for viruses or offer any sort of spam filtering.
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True end-to-end encryption would prevent some value added feature from working...like the ability for Google to scan for viruses or offer any sort of spam filtering.
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True end-to-end encryption would prevent some value added feature from working...like the ability for Google to scan for viruses or offer any sort of spam filtering.
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Response to: Baruch Moskovits on Dec 17th, 2014 @ 7:06pm
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Re: Response to: Baruch Moskovits on Dec 17th, 2014 @ 7:06pm
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Re: Re: Response to: Baruch Moskovits on Dec 17th, 2014 @ 7:06pm
'My bad. I hit submit three times. Techdirt doesn't provide a way to delete your own comments.'
Three strikes, you are now under close surveillance, SWAT on their way, you tried to flood Techdirt's servers, I bet you are North Korean?
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Lions and Tigers and Bears! Oh My!
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Not if it's truly end-to-end, since Google would never have access to the decrypted text.
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They can make the code available to the same people (that is, anyone interested) using google code or github or sourceforge or launchpad or bitbucket or...
I'd have expected google to eat their own dog food.
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Kinda. Google code is not the go-to place for OSS code (and probably never will be). I think they wanted to host this stuff because it's more convenient for them & their own projects.
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Whereas I think it’s easier to get an account on GitHub, which means people can publish their own changes more easily, send patches and pull requests upstream, etc.
In other words, it becomes a true two-way community project on GitHub.
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leg in the middle, all the better to secretly trascribe GV
Google in the middle makes everything more rape profitably better.
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git on outta here
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Are you gods?
Keymaster and Gatekeper... how could that end poorly?
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Re: Github is not that safe.
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