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Not All Encryption Is Created Equal

GCN, April 18th, 2023

True end-to-end encryption services are robust and hardened enough to meet the complex and stringent security and privacy requirements most government enterprises demand.

End-to-end encryption is by no means a novel idea. The need and value of private and secure communications came of age more than a decade ago when E2EE was proposed as an additional layer of encryption for Global System for Mobile Communication and Terrestrial Trunked Radio mobile communications standards. Today, practically every consumer-oriented information-sharing service offers some form of data encryption, but not all are E2EE, and confusion persists about what true E2EE consists of.

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