Private I: Encrypting email with public keys<article>
<section class="page">
<p>
In recent weeks, I’ve written about protecting data stored locally on a hard drive, against both people with physical access and potential remote attacks. But your data is much more vulnerable in transit, as it passes between end points or via servers.</p><p>
This problem is effectively solved for instant messages with iMessage, which uses strong end-to-end encryption designed in such a way that—Apple says—not even they can decrypt your messages. This is accomplished by creating local encryption keys through a process that can’t be reverse-engineered on their side. Even though iMessages pass through intermediate points on the Internet, there’s no opportunity for others to grab the plain text, images, and audio within. (The same is true with FaceTime audio and video.)</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2885191/private-i-encrypting-email-with-public-keys.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
Source:
Private I: Encrypting email with public keys
