This New Encryption Can Make Gmail Safer

There’s a new way to keep your Gmail safe from prying eyes, and experts say it’s well worth using. Google announced the addition of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to Gmail on the web, which will allow enrolled Google Workspace users to send and receive encrypted emails within and outside their domain. 

In an email interview with Lifeire, end-to-end encryption is critical for any communications service because it restricts message content to the sender and receiver(s), according to Jeff Wilbur, senior director of online trust at the nonprofit Internet Society.

“This means that the message content can be seen by bad actors or rogue employees and is subject to access by law enforcement under warrant,” Wilbur added. “With end-to-end encrypted email, only the sender and recipient(s) have the key to unscramble the data, so it is safe from prying eyes of any kind.”

Users of Google Drive, Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Google Meet, and Google Calendar already have access to client-side encryption, or what Google refers to as E2EE. The email header won’t be encrypted if you enable the new encryption. Still, Google claims that data delivered as part of the email’s body and attachments cannot be decrypted by Google servers.

“With Google Workspace Client-side encryption (CSE), content encryption is handled in the client

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