Gmail gains lock and question mark icons to indicate if emails are encrypted and authenticated
In honor of theSafer Internet Day, Google on Tuesdayannouncedin a blog post that it has added a lock icon in Gmail’s web interface to denote whether or not your emails are encrypted. Additionally, a question mark icon on a sender’s avatar indicates messages that are not authenticated. Gmail has supported encrypted connections between a user’s machine and its servers for some time now, but this doesn’t provide the full protection if a sender’s email client or email service does not support encryption in transit using TLS....