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<\/a><\/p>\nImage via Black Hat USA 2014<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Yahoo says it will enable end-to-end encryption for all of its Mail users next year, meaning the contents of user mail will be encrypted from the user\u2019s machine, through Yahoo\u2019s servers and all the way along to the recipient. The company is working with Google on the project and the encryption will be transparent and easy to use.<\/p>\n In a briefing at Black Hat this week in Las Vegas, Nevada, Alex Stamos, the somewhat newly appointed chief information security officer at Yahoo, said that the project is and has been a priority throughout his tenure.<\/p>\n Yahoo is reportedly<\/a> using a browser plugin Google released for Chrome in June that enables end-to-end encryption of all data leaving the browser<\/a>. The partnership between Yahoo and Google is important, Stamos explained, because it will ensure that communication between Yahoo Mail and Gmail users are strongly encrypted.<\/p>\n \u201cThe goal is to have complete compatibility with Gmail,\u201d Stamos said Thursday.<\/p>\n Other security improvements for Yahoo include the implementation of HSTS (HTTP strict transport security, which allows Web sites to force encrypted connections on a user\u2019s browser, and certificate transparency, which uses public logs of trusted certificate authorities and the certificates they endorse in order to stem website spoofing and other man-in-the-middle attacks.<\/p>\n These moves should significantly improve Yahoo\u2019s marks on the Electronic Frontier Foundation\u2019s annual \u201cWho\u2019s Got Your Back?<\/a>\u201d and encryption reports<\/a>. Of course, far more important than that, it means users will be able to communicate securely and privately with far less fear of eaves dropping regardless of their level of technical savvy.<\/p>\n \u201cPost-Snowden, we have a strain of nihilism that\u2019s keeping us from focusing on what\u2019s real,\u201d Stamos said. \u201cWe as an industry have failed. We\u2019ve failed to keep users safe.<\/p>\n