- Gmail can now send e2ee-emails to non-gmail users but it’s not that simple
- Only Workspace Enterprise Plus customers can use the feature
- It’s still far more accessible than s/mime
Google strengthens email security by offering the client page encryption to Gmail users, even if they send to recipients with other email providers.
This means that Gmail senders will be able to end-to-end encryption (E2EE) emails across providers, for example, if sent from Gmail to Outlook, which does not ensure any unjustified access to the content of their message.
However, there is an important difference in how recipients can open their E emails and it will not be as smooth as content landing right in their inbox.
Gmail -users can send encrypted E emails to all
Gmail-to-Gmail E2EE e-mails show in the regular email because Google can take care of the infrastructure for both the sender and the recipient, but because Google has no control over the recipient’s infrastructure on other providers, they will be addressed to a guest account to open the mail.
Still, it ensures that business users can communicate safely without the hassle of exchanging keys or downloading specialized software.
“This capacity, which requires minimal efforts for both IT teams and end users, abstracts traditional IT complexity and substandard user experiences of existing solutions while retaining improved data sovereignity, privacy and security controls,” Google said.
From the launch, it will be available to Google Workspace Enterprise Plus customers with the secure control addition. Rollout has already started, but it can take until mid -October for all users to see the changes.
In a separate blog post earlier in 2025, Google Workspace Senior Product Manager Johny Burke and product manager Julien Duplant Duke Duke S/MIME protocol criticized to be difficult to work with, thus the efforts to simplify the cross-provider’s email encryption.
But Google is not the only company that works to simplify encryption. Proton also offers full E2EE to its own users as well as password -protected links to third parties to view encrypted mail.
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