US military will finally start encrypting soldiers' emails
But the encryption protocol won't be implemented until July 2018.
Mariella Moon, @mariella_moon
07.07.17 in Security
You'd think the military's email service mail.mil would be more secure than Gmail and other free alternatives, but that's apparently not the case. A Motherboard investigation in 2015 revealed that while it does have systems in place to protect classified messages, it doesn't even use STARTTLS -- a 15-year-old encryption technology that prevents emails from being intercepted in transit. That exposes unclassified emails to surveillance and leaves them vulnerable as they make their way to recipients. Now, after getting a lot of flak over the lack of security, Pentagon says it will finally start encrypting soldiers' emails... but not until July 2018.
https://www.engadget.com/2017/07/07/us-military-soldier-email-encryption/
