Gmail is one of—if not the—most popular email platform in the world. But it’s not the favorite for users who care about their privacy. Google doesn’t offer end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for basic Gmail users, instead opting for “Transport Layer Security” (TLS). This provides security in transit, but doesn’t help once the message reaches its destination. While TLS is better than nothing, it doesn’t offer the same level of security as E2EE, which scrambles messages for everyone other than the sender, recipients, and whoever else has the decryption key. As such, privacy-minded users often look elsewhere for their email needs, like Proton Mail.
But Google does offer more advanced encryption for some users—namely, work or school Workspace accounts. There’s Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME), which, like E2EE, encrypts emails in transit and in the sender’s and recipients’ inboxes. But it comes with the drawback of Google having a decryption key as
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