“Google has released the source code for a new extension for Chrome. It’s called End-to-End, and it will provide users with the ability to encrypt their email the whole way from outbox to recipient. The new system uses the open-source encryption standard OpenPGP, and should make it easy for users to read encrypted emails that arrive in their inbox. Clearly, it will require both sender and receiver use End-to-End or another encryption tool—but the idea here is to make encryption more accessible. It’s releasing the code so that devs, engineers and other wildly enthusiastic early adopters can test and evaluate it, to make sure it’s user-friendly, bug-free and secure.”
http://gizmodo.com/google-now-offers-end-to-end-encryption-on-email-1585831839