# What entails prefer e2e encryption?

**URL:** <https://support.delta.chat/t/what-entails-prefer-e2e-encryption/853>\
**Category:** Mutual Help\
**Created:** [February 29, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/what-entails-prefer-e2e-encryption/853 "2020-02-29T17:13:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Simon](https://support.delta.chat/user_avatar/support.delta.chat/simon/32/287_2.png) [@Simon](https://support.delta.chat/u/Simon)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2020, 3:31pm UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/what-entails-prefer-e2e-encryption/853/7 "2020-03-01T15:31:39Z")

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Forcing encryption would imply that you can NOT send any message to people which keys you don’t have.  
That’s not what you want, is it?  
There is a feature proposal for showing whether a message will be encrypted before sending, I believe that is a much more realistic approach.

> [@show end-to-end encryption state of chat](https://support.delta.chat/t/show-end-to-end-encryption-state-of-chat/230):
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> when you want to be sure end-to-end crypto is used, you have to manually check if you reply to a message with a lock symbol. else your message will get sent unencrypted. there should be a notification, when end-to-end crypto is downgraded to disabled. also a force encryption option may be useful: [#246](https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android/issues/246). similar to [#212](https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android/issues/212). (This proposal has been moved from the [issue tracker](https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android/issues/212))

other related topics:

- [Per chat encrypted messages (or separate secret chats)](https://support.delta.chat/t/per-chat-encrypted-messages-or-separate-secret-chats/372)
- [Can encryption be forced or unencrypted messages disabled?](https://support.delta.chat/t/can-encryption-be-forced-or-unencrypted-messages-disabled/571)

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