Yahoo! and Google are joining forces in an effort to provide Yahoo! users with end-to-end encryption on email content. Google already announced the fact that they are "staying at the forefront of email security and reliability" by using an encrypted HTTPS connection when you check or send email. The sharing between the two will certainly benefit the 273 million Yahoo! users.

The announcement was made at this year's Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, NV, where Yahoo's chief information security officer Alex Stamos said they will publish the source code for the project later this year, and his group is working with Google “to ensure that (its) implementations of end-to-end encryption are compatible,” according to theTechCrunch article.

Yahoo! was falling a bit behind with implementing more robust security, so this comes as a nice way to effectively get up to speed along with providing added security between two separate email providers. The goal for Yahoo! is to have this completed by sometime in 2015.