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“With an increase in the number of users coming online and the rise in the penetration of smartphone users in India, we at Google are committed to offering users a safe Internet experience”, Sunita Mohanty, director of trust and safety division at Google India said in a statement.
Tech giant Google has announced the rollout of new authentication features in its popular Gmail email service.
The second security update will inform users if they receive a message from an email account that can’t be authenticated with either Sender Policy Framework or DomainKeys Identified Mail. TLS is a protocol that encrypts and delivers mail securely, for both inbound and outbound mail traffic.
As Mountain View explains here, it’s a little burdensome for end-users to double-check the details that would let them authenticate messages. If an encrypted message is cracked, it only reveals what’s called cyphertext that has to be decrypted.
In that case, Gmail will now warn users with a broken lock icon, similar to what’s used in Chrome and other browsers to indicate an insecure connection. While Gmail supports encryption in transit using TLS and automatically encrypts incoming and outgoing emails when it can, that goes out the window if the sender’s or receiver’s email provider doesn’t, VentureBeat reports.
“For example, if you receive a message from a big sender (like a financial institution, or a major email provider, like Google, Yahoo or Hotmail) that isn’t authenticated, this message is most likely forged and you should be careful about replying to it or opening any attachments”, Google states.
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While a Gmail user is protected by TLS encryption, there’s no way for them to know whether the email service they’re sending to or receiving from is also protected. This storage can be used across Google Drive, Gmail and Google Photos.
