Gmail planning end-to-end encrypted emails

(The Hill) -- Google announced Tuesday that Gmail users will soon be able to send and receive encrypted emails without a third-party provider.

The new process will allow Gmail users to send end-to-end encrypted messages to "any user on any email inbox with just a few clicks," Google wrote in a blog post Tuesday.

A beta version of the feature was launched on Tuesday, allowing Gmail users within the same organization to send the encrypted emails. Over the next few weeks, users...