How to Send Encrypted Email on Outlook, Gmail, iOS, & Android
With the rise of the internet, our world started growing a lot faster, a lot bigger. The Internet made everything easier to be it sending some files to your colleague through email or asking help from your friend who is living far away from you.
But as Uncle Ben said to our favorite Spiderman, “With great powers comes great responsibility”. Everyone should use the internet responsibly. But it is not the case. Some people use information and messages we send to others for their advantages.
And that’s where encryption comes to play. And most common use of encryption is the encryption of emails.
Emails are the most common way of communication between different organizations and between people. There were millions of emails sent and received. Although we don’t know how many of them are encrypted.
So if you are wondering how to encrypt your emails read the article carefully and you will thank me later.
Let first see what exactly encrypting emails mean.
So encryption is a technique used to convert the plain text or a simple text into some hidden text.
So encrypting emails means converting whatever that you are sending to the other person a data, a text or images into something which is not recognizable by simply looking at it or reading it.
Therefore if another person gets hold of this information he won’t be able to identify or specify what is in the data.
There are two types of encryption techniques uses to encrypt emails.
- S/MIME is a short form for secure/multipurpose internet mail extension
In this technique, there is a centralized authority that stores your keys.
This technique already installed in the software which is provided by big companies such as Gmail, Outlook, iOS.
- PGP/MIME is a short form for pretty good privacy/multipurpose internet mail extension
In this technique, there is a decentralized authority.
You can create your key with this technique.
We have to use a third party system to use this technique.
It is generally used in an Android-based system.
Both of these techniques two key methods. In which sender has the public key which is available in the public domain and the receiver has the private which is stored somewhere in his system. So to decrypt the data sent by the private sender key is necessary