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by John W. Simek, Vice President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc.

Encryption is your Friend. Google Agrees.

November 18, 2015

Forget the discussions about building backdoors into encryption schemes. Encryption is your friend and will protect the data once you’ve enabled it. Apparently, Google agrees and will begin alerting users when attempting to open unencrypted email messages. What a great idea. Everybody should have the ability to encrypt e-mail messages. Key exchange is a pain in the butt, which has hampered implementation of encrypted e-mail. You can always use a service like Zixcorp or send the “secret” data in a password protected Word document, which will encrypt the contents. Simple enough and “free” since you already own Microsoft Office.

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