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Microsoft's Hotmail Always-On Encryption: Overview And Limitations

Calendar Nov 10, 2010 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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For the first time in its 13-year history, Microsoft's Hotmail comes with the ability to protect email sessions with secure sockets layer encryption from start to finish. It's the same always-on encryption Google Mail has offered for more than two years. And it comes with some pretty extreme limitations

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