According to Wall Street Journal n Yahoo! will release by the end of 2015 a plugin based on Open PGP for end-to-end encryption of e-mail her.
Its objective companys is to make the use of PGP encryption accessible to every user and not just to experts.
The plugin is described on the Purple Palace blog by the lead better safetyAlex Stamos information. The email encryption code was first unveiled at South by Southwest (SXSW) over the weekend.
Alex Stamos says Yahoo is currently "already distributing the source code to the public so that it can get feedback from the wider security industry." The current version has already been published in GitHub.
The code is already covered by Yahoo's bug bounty, and Alex Stamos reports that the company hopes that other e-mail providers will follow their lead. Google is already planning something for Chrome.
The Wall Street Journal also reports that Stamos reminded SXSW attendees that encryption of the content will not protect users from metadata collectors, but at least they will be encrypted.
