Company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), is preparing to make an extremely important change for the service iCloud in terms of sending or receiving emails, intending to encrypts all messages sent or received through its servers. At the moment Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), encrypts in both directions the emails sent/received between the accounts iCloud, but in the future it intends to encrypt including emails exchanged through other services.
Apple encrypts e-mail from its customers to iCloud. However, Apple is one of the few global email providers based in the US that is not encrypting any of its customers' email in transit between providers. After we published, the company told us this would soon change. This affects users of me.com and mac.com email addresses.
Company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), did not offer a date for the implementation of this service, but the company is working on its activation in communications with other email services. At the moment, Apple encrypts emails received from Gmail, but encryption in both directions is done only for its own infrastructure, and this is not enough in a world with so many email services.
Apple's efforts are commendable and will provide improved security for the transfer of user data, but it remains to be seen when it will decide to offer this service.
