Who needs to encrypt email?
Public-key encryption is for situations where you might want to send some highly confidential plans or ideas to another party via email. Or does your business have some particularly aggressive competition? If so, it might not be a bad idea to take some extra precautions when sending email that contains some sensitive information for your business. How does encryption work? You can encrypt email messages with a unique code referred to as a “key.” When encrypting email using public key cryptography, an individual or organization has two complementary keys — one called a public key, and one called a private key. Any information encrypted using the private key can only be decrypted using the public key. Conversely, any information encrypted using the public key can only be decrypted using the private key. To an outside party, the text of an encrypted email looks like scrambled letters, numbers, and symbols. Then, once the recipient receives the mail, it is decrypted so it can be read. How
