More than 10 years ago, a variety of organizations got together to set in place the first secure email protocol, called Sender Policy Framework or SPF, which was proposed back in 1996.

It's a lot more flexible than POP (Post Office Protocol), which essentially ties you to a single device. You need to choose the email protocol - IMAP or POP - when you initially set up the account.

POP and IMAP are the two most popular email protocols, but there are a few differences between them. Here's what you need to know.

Email was not designed with strong security protocols; it is inherently insecure because its fundamental protocols, like SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), do not encrypt data. Secure email ...

Ugly protocols for doing the same thing include Exchange and Notes. Other protocols also exist for doing authentication and/or encryption of mail. Do searches for SASL, GPG (Or PGP), S/MIME.<BR><BR>5.

The developer behind Lavabit, an email service that noted leaker Edward Snowden used, is releasing source code for an open-source end-to-end encrypted email standard that promises surveillance ...

Anthropic, Google, and others are developing better ways for agents to interact with our programs and each other, but there’s ...