PGP email encryption is hard – but it doesn't have to be. Here's how to do it on a Mac, in just a few easy steps.

To encrypt emails using the Mail app on macOS, you first need a personal certificate (also known as a digital ID) installed on your Mac. This certificate will allow you to sign and encrypt emails.

What with all the talk of governments accessing our email, some people would like to prevent that from happening. Chris Breen explains how to encrypt email with Apple's Mail.

Why You Should Encrypt Your Email While government spying is on everyone's mind right now, it's really just the most recent security distraction to make headlines.

However, a number of e-mail clients, including Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, and Apple Mail, have built-in support for another encryption system: S/MIME.

This article will show you how to encrypt only your Postbox email on a Mac, but can easily be adapted to other email clients (or other folders like your Documents folder).

Following the post, however, Apple told NPR that it is planning to encrypt those emails in the near future. Apple encrypts e-mail from its customers to iCloud.

You don't need to be Jack Bauer to derive some benefit from encrypting your e-mail conversations. Electronic mail was designed and implemented largely in a bygone era of trust and information ...