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    Encrypting your email

    Jul 01, 2019 4 minutes

    UNLIKE MANY OF today’s communications protocols, email was invented in a time before the rise of the surveillance state and the explosion of criminal hacking syndicates. Because of that, it doesn’t have many inherent safeguards. Most notably, it does not natively support end-to-end encryption, meaning that your email service provider (and anybody who can compel or hack them) has full access to all your emails.

    There are ways to bolt-on that kind of encryption to email, however. The most common method is PGP, short for Pretty Good Privacy, and this month we’re going to talk about how you can set it up for yourself.

    HOW IT WORKS

    Like most end-to-end encryption systems, PGP uses what’s called

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