In the period after the revelations of the case Edward Snowden, το θέμα της ασφάλειας online και της encryptionof communications concerns more and more companies and users.
An exception is not the Google, η οποία είχε υποστηρίξει το HTTPS όταν είχε λανσαριστεί αρχικά και πλέον χρησιμοποιεί επί μόνιμης βάσης κρυπτογραφημένες συνδέσεις στην service email της, Gmail.
In a post on her official blog for issues security company announced that to its list of means of protection against online threats and "spies" it is adding the alpha version of a new tool: its name is End-to-End and it is an extension for Chrome aimed at users who request increased security beyond that already provided.
"End-to-end encryption means that the data that leaves your browser will be encrypted until it is decrypted by the recipient as the recipient of the message and that correspondingly encrypted messages sent to you will remain so until you decrypt them in the browser you "is noted in the publication.
The company explains that although end-to-end encryption tools like PGP and GnuPG have long been available, they require increased technical knowledge and effort to be used. "To make this kind of encryption easier, we are releasing code for a new extension for Chrome using OpenPGP, an open standard supported by many existing encryption tools."
However, the end-to-end extension is not yet available in the Chrome Web Store: "We just share the code so the community can test it and evaluate it, helping us make sure it's as safe as it takes before users start to rely on it, "he said, adding that once the extension is ready, it will become available in the Chrome Web Store and everyone will be able to use it to send and receive end-to-end encrypted emails via the existing web-based email provide r's.
It is noted that, according to a related article by CNN, this type of encryption was used by Edward Snowden during his communications with journalists before the publication of the documents on the extent of electronic surveillance by the services US intelligence.
Source: naftemporiki.gr
