Facebook Now Supports PGP To Send You Encrypted Emails

An anonymous reader writes: You can now have Facebook encrypt email it sends to you by adding your PGP key to your profile. The PGP feature is "experimental" and will be rolled out slowly. The announcement reads in part: "...today we are gradually rolling out an experimental new feature that enables people to add OpenPGP public keys to their profile; these keys can be used to 'end-to-end' encrypt notification emails sent from Facebook to your preferred email accounts. People may also choose to share OpenPGP keys from their profile, with or without enabling encrypted notifications."

Comments

Signing of messages

[houghi]

I see the frist step not in encryption, but in verifiation in that the sender is who he claims he is.

If this helps to have more people use it that way, I am all for it.

e.g. I have a dedicated email adress for e.g. my bank bank.com@example.com. That way I can already filter out those who pretend to be my bank. It would be better if they used a PGP signature so I can verify if it really IS the bank sending me something (Or any other company) or if it just qn elite hqxor who changed the from adress.

To me email encryption is not the main factor, signing of emails/messages is.

Meanwhile

[Enry]

Slashdot still doesn't offer https support.