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The Natural Philosopher[_2_]

On 23/01/2019 09:58, wrote:
Hi All,

I always believed that in the olden days (10-20 years ago). email travelling across the internet
Was unencrypted and insecure.

Recently a couple of people have suggested to me that these days its encrypted and always was.

Is it?

Was it?

TIA

Chris

It may be.

It wasn't.

Any in the middle entryptioon is typiaclly removed by te last mail
server in te chain. So if for example yuou use gmmail, all yuoir mail is
tsored in plain on thneir servers.

It may get encrypted between there and you briefly, and it may bave been
entrpted up till then.

But there is no 'end to end' encryption. Unless you use PGP which is
frankly a swine to set up.

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