Online privacy is gaining more and more importance nowadays, and recent news suggests Yahoo is jumping on the bandwagon
pioneered by Google in an effort to create an encrypted e-mail system. The new system is claimed to be completely secure, preventing government officials and even the e-mail providers themselves from accessing any content created by the user. Long story short, decryption will be impossible.
This will be the first time an advanced security system is available for a great number of end-users if two companies succeed in achieving their plans. Although they are long time rivals, engineers in both firms are known to talk to each other about the project according to inside sources.
