Understanding encrypted email - the basics #cybersecurity #emailencryption

CISA and the FBI have been recommending users go to fully End to End encrypted messaging - but that should extend to email as well.

In this session, I give a quick overview of the very basics of email encryption, including a bit on the protocols and what's going on under the hood.

I'd planned for this to come out in early January 2025, but the holidays and a couple bouts of being sick put a real wrench in the production schedule!

Referenced RFCs:

RFC 918 (1984): datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc918
RFC 821 (1982): datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc821
RFC9051(2021): datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9051

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