Johnny can’t encrypt. It’s no use. . . . This is what has been said repeatedly about mere mortal users and encryption, which forever has been the domain of black chambers and mathematical geniuses. Scores of companies have tried to get around this problem by hiding encryption in their servers, far away from users’ eyes.
And yet, studies have shown that this creates another problem: if I can’t see any of the encryption, how can I relax and be sure that this message where I’m risking my career, maybe my life, is truly away from prying eyes? Just because the software tells me to relax?
PassLok does not hide encryption from users, and it tries hard to make it accessible. This is why the next step in its development is so important. PassLok for Email is a new Chrome extension that adds PassLok encryption to regular web-based email apps. Its beta, which supports Gmail, Yahoo, and Outlook online, has just been released for public testing. Read More