Although the e-mail has been around for decades, the underlying transport technology used to send it, the SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), is still surprisingly old, which makes it easy to spy what is sent.
in an attempt to create a more secure email, Microsoft, Google, Comcast, LinkedIn and other technology giants are teaming up to work on the system encryption. The proposal was submitted to the Internet Engineering Task Force, an institution that develops and promotes Internet standards, last Friday, 18.
The goal is to prevent someone intercept or modify the contents of the email during sent through the SSL break.
When a message is sent to a domain that supports SMTP STS, the sender will automatically check if the target supports encryption and your certificate is valid before sending to ensure that you are talking to the server right. If invalid, the e-mail will not be delivered and a message will explain to the user why.
Via The Next Web
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