I’ve always been a bit uneasy about encrypted email because I feel like it’s only as good as you handle it. As soon as it’s sent, the recipient can do whatever they want.
To be clear, I’m a total idiot when it comes to understanding how this works.
That’s encryption in a nutshell. A message is encrypted until it reaches its destination, and then by necessity is unencrypted in order to read it. Once your recipient has the unencrypted message, you don’t have any control over what happens to it.
Fundamentally, if you don’t trust the recipient (or their system provider), no amount of encryption will protect your message.
I’ve always been a bit uneasy about encrypted email because I feel like it’s only as good as you handle it. As soon as it’s sent, the recipient can do whatever they want.
To be clear, I’m a total idiot when it comes to understanding how this works.
That’s encryption in a nutshell. A message is encrypted until it reaches its destination, and then by necessity is unencrypted in order to read it. Once your recipient has the unencrypted message, you don’t have any control over what happens to it.
Fundamentally, if you don’t trust the recipient (or their system provider), no amount of encryption will protect your message.