Comment by rickette

5 months ago

Only available for Google Workspace: Enterprise Plus with the Assured Controls add-on.

Any idea what those are exactly? Does it only work for recipients on teams with SSO? Or is this just gating who can start these supposedly e2e encrypted email threads?

  • Looks like recipients can be anyone but would be forced to create a guest account if they don't have one. Which sounds like Google meditating key exchange? Which isn't really e2e encryption at least for the initial message.

  • Only the higher/highest tier Google Workspace users can send these kind of emails. Anyone can read them.

I think this is just to compete with stuff like Mimecast.

Pretty sure admins can still audit emails even if they're E2EE.