Reply #32: Web SSL has nothing to do with encrypted email

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All that tool is saying is that it can't find an HTTPS website at that address. That has nothing to do with email.

White House email may or may not use TLS or other encryption schemes in transit; the normal email probably does not. Email traffic to whitehouse.gov addresses is generally public in nature and there is little need to encrypt it. The President doesn't send memos to secretaries and generals from [email protected] ; he uses a totally separate system that is not on the public internet.

The traffic to and from whitehouse.gov addresses is
A) People like you and me writing the white house to say things about policies, etc.
B) The white house responding
C) Normal office traffic from staffers ("ooh, look at this dancing hamster!")

None of this has any particular need for encryption.