Google adds end-to-end email encryption to Gmail

Google has introduced a new end-to-end encryption (E2EE) feature in Gmail, enabling organizations to send encrypted emails that even Google cannot read to other Gmail users. Later this year, the feature will be expanded to allow the sending of encrypted emails to any email users, including those from other providers.

E2EE differs from encrypting email communication in transit between email servers, which is already achieved with TLS (transport layer security), or at rest when stored in Google’s data centers. E2EE allows users to encrypt sent messages in a way that only the intended recipients can decrypt and read them.

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