When you click on an email, you likely don't think much about the swift journey it made from the sender's inbox to yours.<br />But some mail providers still send content over unencrypted connections, so Google plans to notify Gmail users if this is the case.<br />Google already defaults to HTTPS-the Web prefix indicating an encrypted connection-in Search, Gmail, and Drive, and started encrypting all Gmail messages last year.<br />And Google said today that encrypted messaging is on the rise: Since 2013, the number of encrypted emails that Gmail received from non-Gmail senders increased from 33 percent to 61 percent.<br />Because of that final 39 percent, though, Google will serve up warnings.
