How Do I Password Protect Email Attachments?

⚠️ Some documents are sensitive enough to warrant encryption to password protect email attachments. I'll look at some of the alternatives, from complex to easy.

⚠️ In Short:
Rather than having your email program encrypt the attachment, add a password and encrypt the document before attaching it. Tools like 7-Zip using “zip” format are both secure and ubiquitous, making it easy for your recipient to extract the contents, assuming they have the password. There are more complex solutions, more common in corporate situations. Another approach is to use a ProtonMail account, which handles encryption well.


Chapters
0:00 Encrypting attachments
0:10 The question
0:28 No way to automatically encrypt
1:17 What you’re looking for
1:34 Do-it-yourself
1:57 Communicate with your recipient
2:38 What I do
3:07 works across all platforms
4:15 ProtonMail

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[askleonotenboom]

Keeping prying eyes out with encryption may protect valuable documents, but it adds some complexity to sending an email.

[thealldaycrew]

This was such a good explanation and video! Thanks Leo!

[bornrich]

The 2nd thing you said is what I was looking for.

[شهنشاه]

hey, why I cant use other countries phone number when I want my contact to receive a SMS from google for opening my email? Or we can but i dont know...

[carlod]

@Ask Leo! - Tech confidence & solutions How do I encrypt a file and email it to someone when I am using a Mac and the person receiving the file is using Windows?

[ronadvincula]

show us how to do it not just talk about it.

[masomakrexeni]

Man u talking a lot, not giving solutions

[bornrich]

The 2nd thing you said is what I was looking for.