<p>Two big complaints people have had about encrypted email often derail its use outside of a small circle. Complaint one: It's hard to use. Complaint two: You have to get the people on the receiving end of the email to use it as well (good luck with that), or it's useless.</p><p>Microsoft's newest Office 365 feature is intended to fix both of those problems at once. Named Office 365 Message Encryption, this new feature is actually an implementation of Microsoft Exchange's long-standing feature Exchange Hosted Encryption (EHE). It's likely Microsoft has built this on top of its existing Rights Management System, the mechanism Exchange has used to secure email against unauthorized forwarding or copying.</p><p>Office 365 Message Encryption works by sending encrypted emails as an HTML attachment. When the user opens the attachment, they'll be presented with instructions for signing in via an Office 365 or Microsoft Account. Once they're authenticated, the message is decrypted and shown to them in the browser via an interface much like that of Outlook Web Apps. Replies sent through Office 365 Message encryption are also encrypted. (Manual replies, however, such as those sent from your own email client, aren't encrypted.)</p><p>Most encrypted email solutions have been cumbersome, not just because they required third-party software at both ends to work, but because of all the other hoops that have to be jumped through. Enigmail, for instance, makes it much easier to work with OpenPGP encryption in Mozilla Thunderbird, but it still requires creating and managing public and private keys. Office 365 Message Encryption removes the need to deal with keypairs.</p><p><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/t/encryption/microsoft-cuts-the-hassle-email-encryption-office-365-upgrade-231573">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.informationweek.com/security/application-security/microsoft-office-365-encrypted-email-on-tap/d/d-id/1112820">Microsoft Office 365 Encrypted Email On Tap</a> (InformationWeek)</p><p><a href="http://www.cruxialcio.com/microsoft-adds-email-encryption-office-365-2864">Microsoft Adds Email Encryption In Office 365</a> (CruxialCIO)</p><p><a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/112613-microsoft-office365-276383.html">Microsoft bulks up security; brings encrypted email to Office 365 Enterprise ...</a> (Network World)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dD9LAFagE4laFFM3q3DY2sif_AJnM&ned=us">12 additional articles.</a></p>