Microsoft: Advancing our encryption and transparency efforts

07 Jul 2014 • blogs.technet.com

First, Outlook.com is now further protected by Transport Layer Security, or TLS, encryption for both outbound and inbound email. This means that when you send an email to someone, your email is encrypted and thus better protected as it travels between Microsoft and other email providers. Of course, this requires their email service provider to also have TLS support.

First SendGrid just 2 weeks ago, now Microsoft. It would be great to see this become the new standard and phase out “plain text” transmission completely. Then we can start focusing on end-to-end (person-to-person) encryption instead of just provider to provider.