Some Suggestions for Encrypting Your Email (and Why You Might Want To)

As Lee recently pointed out, email is not a new topic for the Profhacker crowd. It’s monsoon season; the end-of-the-year flood, after all. I imagine most reading this while barely treading water. “Why not give water to a drowning prof,” I thought. So here’s a bit about encrypted email!

I’ve written about encryption here before (see my post on Keybase). And while email is inherently insecure—by its very nature it is horribly insecure, prone to misfires, reply-alls, shoulder-surfing, lost laptops...