irq-1 2 days ago

https://support.google.com/a/answer/14309952

> Users with a consumer Google Account (such as Gmail users) can't access client-side encrypted content, send encrypted email, or participate in client-side encrypted meetings.

> To view or edit client-side encrypted content, users must use either the Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge (Chromium) browser.

  • SahAssar 2 days ago

    That's just absurd. Requiring both a specific (paid) email provider and specific (both funded by ads) browsers is a joke.

    • ariwilson 2 days ago

      Why?

      • Larrikin a day ago

        Email exists between providers in its current form because there weren't people trying to figure out how to insert themselves in between so they can make money. Justify needing a better reason

ninjastar99 2 days ago

Thought this was an April Fools joke - please tell me it is! That UI looks exactly like a phishing email. And then to make users login once they click it? Exactly like a phishing email.

rlpb 2 days ago

> When the recipient is a Gmail user (enterprise or personal), Gmail sends an E2EE email. The email is automatically decrypted in the recipient's inbox, and the recipient can use Gmail in a familiar way.

So what happens with Search?

  • saint_yossarian 2 days ago

    ProtonMail downloads the whole mailbox to browser storage to support fulltext search.

  • netsharc 2 days ago

    Random unpolished idea: a (local) search engine that runs when seeing the email and stores the keywords encrypted in its index..

    So if you're looking for "Nigerian prince" it will look up "Avtrevna cevapr" and return references to the emails containing that term.

    • wildzzz 2 days ago

      Is that an April fools joke? Proper encryption suites don't produce something that looks like a Caesar cipher, it's just a solid block of seemingly random data. You can't really index something like the words inside an email unless you first decrypt it.

d332 2 days ago

Judging from the screencast, this UX is going to be a great gift for scammers.

  • easton 2 days ago

    I mean, this is almost the same as the external Office 365 screens for encrypted mail just with Google’s design language, so maybe it doesn’t happen as often in practice?

cachedthing0 2 days ago

Google and privacy is like Zuckerberg and moral or JD Vance and self-reflection. Only on april 1.

commandersaki 2 days ago

This is like their 3rd or 4th attempt to do encrypted email.

blitzar 2 days ago

Is this a .gov selling feature they are letting us mere mortal corporations play with?

egberts 2 days ago

Ummmmm, E2E on a JavaScript-infested website?

No thanks. Just, no.