Google announced on Friday that it's adding end-to-end encryption to Gmail on the web, allowing enrolled Google Workspace users to send and receive encrypted emails within their domain and outside their domain.
@BleepingComputer They’ve announced this several times though and it has never actually arrived. They last announced this in 2014 and in 2017 Wired was already lamenting it as vaporware https://www.wired.com/2017/02/3-years-gmails-end-end-encryption-still-vapor/amp
@BleepingComputer Also the S/MIME encryption described has been an option for Enterprise Plus users for a long time, I’ve used it for years at work. What exactly are they announcing as new? Something seems missing.
@rabbit @BleepingComputer Client Side Encryption, as I've read it, means that even the browser cache will be locally encrypted.
@rabbit @BleepingComputer I'm trying to determine the value of CSE in a world where the local drive is encrypted
@smeg @rabbit @BleepingComputer
Or in a world where there's no mechanism to authenticate the browser binary? (If there's no disk encryption, that's the case; if there is, it's arguable, because we ~never do actual partial-rollback-proof disk encryption.)
