Title: Encrypted messaging
Last modified: September 2, 2018

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# Encrypted messaging

 *  Resolved [Ambyomoron](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josiah-s-carberry/)
 * (@josiah-s-carberry)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encrypted-messaging/)
 * Given that the email messages sent by the Wordfence plugin to administrators 
   contains more or less sensitive information, wouldn’t it be nice if those messages
   were encrypted? I, for one, have configured my email client to use OpenPGP. But
   why, in general, are people so lazy about communicating all sorts of things in
   clear text when it is pretty simple and largely transparent to use encryption.
   Shouldn’t a security provider like Wordfence take the lead in making such features
   available?

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 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encrypted-messaging/#post-10648344)
 * That’s really outside of the scope of this plugin or any plugin. This is a security
   plugin, not a secure email plugin. It uses the same mail delivery system as any
   WordPress plugin and designing an email replacement is a “non-trivia task”.
 * Try this plugin.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-pgp-encrypted-emails/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-pgp-encrypted-emails/)
 * As it’s PGP and/or S/MIME you will need to know what you are doing to use that
   plugin. Encrypted messaging is not just a toggle son/off switch.
 *  Thread Starter [Ambyomoron](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josiah-s-carberry/)
 * (@josiah-s-carberry)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encrypted-messaging/#post-10652385)
 * Well, I guess there are different opinions about whether security events should
   be communicated in a secure way.
 * But even if one were to install an email encryption plugin, since Wordfence does
   NOT give the option to send text email (as opposed to html email), such encryption
   would be largely impractical, because the decrypted message would appear as html
   source code, even if the email client knew how to interpret html.
 *  [wfalaa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfalaa/)
 * (@wfalaa)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encrypted-messaging/#post-10663192)
 * Hi [@josiah-s-carberry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josiah-s-carberry/)
 * I’ve logged the “Ability to choose between text or html emails” as a feature 
   request to our team.
 * Thanks for your suggestion!

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encrypted-messaging/#post-10663192)
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