Practically no one encrypts their emails because of it is miles simply too mighty of a distress

Practically no one encrypts their emails because of it is miles simply too mighty of a distress



Technology



10 September 2021

By Chris Stokel-Walker

A graphic of an email

Now we possess the know-how to encrypt electronic mail, however we in general don’t bother

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Appropriate 0.06 per cent of emails are encrypted, in line with an diagnosis of 81 million messages sent over 27 years.

Christian Stransky at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany, and his colleagues analysed emails sent by 37,000 of the college’s college students and employees between January 1994 and July 2021. Totally 5.46 per cent of customers had ever former encryption tools much like S/MIME or PGP – the latter of which has been in existence for 30 years. In all, …

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