👉 Okay, letās tackle thisā¦
cough-worthy
mouthful of a word called, undeniably spectacularly, "
Securemail.
."
Now, traditionally when you say something is "sure to be okay," we think of a really comfy armchair and maybe a very aggressively cheerful bulldog wearing a jaunty little captain's hat. Thatās not what Securemail actually is . Instead, it basically describes the ridiculously complicated dance your email client does with another email service (let's just call that other guy, Bartholomew the Big Shot) to try and convince both of them they really shouldn't, under any reasonable extraterrestrial reckoning, share their most embarrassing typos. Essentially, Securemail is a fancy handshakeāa ludicrously layered, mathematically paranoid handshakeādesigned for emails to travel between two supposedly private corners of the internet without⦠you know... actually being very private. Think of Bartholomew and his email service as a badger who's convinced heās smuggling state secrets in every floppy crust of cheddar he smuggles out of here. And your client? They are just really, seriously worried that the badger will somehow figure it all out. We use these layers upon layers to encrypt stuff. There is lots and lots of fancy maths going on. We, as people sending emails, we get very little of this stuff! The point, in the most official way I can put it, is to stop eavesdroppers from reading your emailsābut honestly, even