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Google announced today that Gmail has become the first major email provider to support two new security standards, namely MTA-STS and TLS Reporting.
Both are extensions to the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), the protocol through which all emails are sent today.
The purpose of MTA-STS and TLS Reporting is to help email providers establish cryptographically secure connections between each other, with the main goal of twarthing SMTP man-in-the-middle attacks.
SMTP man-in-the-middle attacks are a major problem for today’s email landscape, where rogue email server operators can intercept, read, and modify the contents of people’s emails.