Do you want to know how to send encrypted email in Gmail? Great, but first you must need to know something about encryption.
Basically, encryption is a technique to protect your data from being hacked or lost. When you encrypt your file, then you must need to create a password key while encryption process, which is then later used to decrypt your file.
Just have a glance at this article to know, how to send an encrypted email in Gmail.
Steps to send an encrypted email in Gmail:
Step 1: First open Chrome web store, you can directly open it from Google Chrome, or you can click on this link to open Chrome web store “https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/apps”. After that just type “secure mail for Gmail” in the search box provided at the top right corner of your screen and then press enter.
Step 2: You may see “Secure Mail for Gmail” is listed in your search results. Just click on its icon to open.
Step 3: Now, you may see a brief review and overview regarding secure mail for Gmail. After checking the reviews, you can now proceed with your installation by clicking on “Add to Chrome” button.
Step 4: After your installation gets completed. You can now move on to test this brand new feature. For that, you need to open your Gmail account by clicking on “Sign in” button.
Step 5: Now, compose a test mail to check whether this process is actually working or not. Just click on the lock icon beside “Compose” to open encrypted message box.
Step 6: Here, you may notice a quite a difference between an actual message box and encrypted message box. Right?.
Step 7: Moving on, now you have to enter recipient email id, subject line and message body text and then click on “Send Encrypted” button to send this encrypted mail.
Step 8: Finally, you may see a new window pops open, and you just need to provide an encryption password which may be used , when the recipient(s) wants to view this secure message. After that, click on “Encrypt & Send” button to send your secure email.
That’s all friends. Keep reading.
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