Facebook moves to encrypt the emails it sends users

Kudos to Facebook.  Encryption is a good thing.


From Sophos Naked Security:


Facebook moves to encrypt the emails it sends users


Facebook announced that it's introducing an experimental new feature that lets users add OpenPGP public encryption keys to their profiles so that Facebook can encrypt the email notifications it sends them.
From the post:

Whilst Facebook seeks to secure connections to your email provider with TLS, the stored content of those messages may be accessible as plaintext (with attachments) to anyone who accesses your email provider or email account.
To enhance the privacy of this email content, today we are gradually rolling out an experimental new feature that enables people to add OpenPGP public keys to their profile; these keys can be used to "end-to-end" encrypt notification emails sent from Facebook to your preferred email accounts.