Better even would be a provider incorporated in Europe and all its infrastructure and data centers there, due to somewhat more stringent data protection laws and better practice on this front. The company is located in Canada, which is important if you're familiar with the subject. One of them that stands out is CryptoHeaven, dubbing itself 'world's safest email'. ![]() There are a couple of solutions I've tried recently. That's a really sad state of affairs and is putting everyone using the world wide webs at risk. ![]() The few people who do care, even some more techie types who could set such a solution up by themselves, find it's not worth the effort as nobody else is using it. The general populace remains lazy, ignorant, preferring convenience or just not bothered. Seeing how most people are still astonishingly blase about the issue and do not understand what's possibly at stake here, what privacy issues could arise projected say 20 years into the future, the considerate geek is likely to end up talking to himself. The problem with all of them is the fact that the people you correspond with have to know how to decrypt received messages or have to use the same service as you do. Most of them are also using PGP but absolve the end user from the task of setting this up themselves. ![]() But there are a few more custom, and at a higher service level commercial, services on the market. Many ways to encrypt your email exist, with the use of PGP in the client and the ability for digital signing of messages to prove their authenticity and that they have not been tampered with being the most popular and probably oldest one. The case for encrypted communications has been in the news quite a bit lately.
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