I seriously consider my email privacy

[King Of Email]

CarlS, I appreciate your feedback on the issue of digital security, however any encrypted communication, given sufficient time and effort can be broken, especially if the effort is undertaken by a police state with unlimited authority and unlimited resources. 99% of the equation isn't the extent of the encryption, but whether or not one is suspected in the first place. The attempt to intercept, decrypt, and translate billions of electronic communications is not only impractical but for all intents and purposes, is impossible. Therefore, profiling is a necessity. I simply offer some out of the box suggestions that fly under the radar of inquiring authorities. Often hiding in plain sight is better than advertising your status and revealing your cover.

[ST123]

Does the USB key no work with a Mac?

How long does it take support to answer on average?

[CarlS]

Originally Posted by King Of Email

CarlS, I appreciate your feedback on the issue of digital security, however any encrypted communication, given sufficient time and effort can be broken, especially if the effort is undertaken by a police state with unlimited authority and unlimited resources. 99% of the equation isn't the extent of the encryption, but whether or not one is suspected in the first place. The attempt to intercept, decrypt, and translate billions of electronic communications is not only impractical but for all intents and purposes, is impossible. Therefore, profiling is a necessity. I simply offer some out of the box suggestions that fly under the radar of inquiring authorities. Often hiding in plain sight is better than advertising your status and revealing your cover.

I agree with you but I will also have to say that the computation time with proper encryption algorithms and properly adapted will make it infeasible with todays mathematical knowledge to crack it within many many lifetimes, perhaps even thousands of years. And that is what really matters.

Originally Posted by ST123

Does the USB key no work with a Mac?

How long does it take support to answer on average?

It says on their website that it doesn't work on a Mac but they are working on it, I don't know how long it takes for them to reply to inquiries.

[malcarada]

Safe-Mail has been around for quite a few years. I do not know where their servers are based but I believe they are an Israeli company.

I was with Safe-Mail in the past and had no complaints besides the fact that they send your computer IP on the headers, that is the reason why I left them, but if all you care about is encryption, it is a good service.

[opolis]

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opolis uses standard public private key encryption. your opolis mails are accessed by a so called mail client which you can use everywhere, even in any internet cafe. advantage is that none of your mail transactions can be traced on the host machine, as encryption is embedded in the mail client.

then, with opolis the sender decides if and how the recipient is allowed to further process a sent email (alas, whether the recipient is allowed to forward your mail, to copy or print it, or to respond to it). this also extends to txt and photo attachments. - also, the sender is able to monitor the entire path of a message sent (such as when your mail has been opened and how it has been further processed, if allowed to do so ...)

maybe it is an alternative for what you are looking for.

[Tsunami]

Originally Posted by malcarada

Safe-Mail has been around for quite a few years. I do not know where their servers are based but I believe they are an Israeli company.

I was with Safe-Mail in the past and had no complaints besides the fact that they send your computer IP on the headers, that is the reason why I left them, but if all you care about is encryption, it is a good service.

Safe Mail is Israeli and hosted in Israel. Top provider with the lack of storage space as only downside. Love the fact that it does't offer the option to save passwords when signing in. No worries about pressing the wrong button. Also very handy that it logs succesful AND unsuccesful log-ins. I love Safe Mail

[CarlS]

Originally Posted by Tsunami

Safe Mail is Israeli and hosted in Israel. Top provider with the lack of storage space as only downside. Love the fact that it does't offer the option to save passwords when signing in. No worries about pressing the wrong button. Also very handy that it logs succesful AND unsuccesful log-ins. I love Safe Mail

Yeah, Safe-mail.net is a good service. They also have a virtual keyboard option. Hushmail also has a function to see logins (ip+time+date+country) and they also had logs of unsuccessful logins but the latter is no more. I would however like to point out that Safe-mail.net does not include PGP-encryption to other non-safemail accounts and they lack other functions which other services may have (like aliases) and Safe-mail does send the users IP-address to the recipient. Every secure e-mail provider has its pros and cons. It is quite a shame actually, in my belief it should be possible to create a service which has all functions that are available on the market today. It seems as if the secure e-mail providers does not look at each other and copy their ideas.

[B4its2L8]

Hi, Carl

You mentioned several times here that Hushmail is coming out with some upgrades including a new interface. Do you have any inside knowledge on what the specifics are ? More storage for free users ? Removing the ads that pop up for free users ? Ability to compose in HTML ?

[CarlS]

Originally Posted by B4its2L8

Hi, Carl

You mentioned several times here that Hushmail is coming out with some upgrades including a new interface. Do you have any inside knowledge on what the specifics are ? More storage for free users ? Removing the ads that pop up for free users ? Ability to compose in HTML ?

Hello,

no I would not say I have any insider information about Hushmail but I have been e-mailing back and forth with one of their developers and I have provided them with a lot of opinions and suggestions for a new interface. They have told me that the will release it any month now and lately they have posted this on their website.

As far as I know there are no pop ups in the free accounts of Hushmail. I don't know anything about more free storage but it seems unlikely since Hushmail is a commercial service. There are limits in PGP-encrypting HTML formatted messages.

[B4its2L8]

Originally Posted by CarlS

Hello,

no I would not say I have any insider information about Hushmail but I have been e-mailing back and forth with one of their developers and I have provided them with a lot of opinions and suggestions for a new interface. They have told me that the will release it any month now and lately they have posted this on their website.

As far as I know there are no pop ups in the free accounts of Hushmail. I don't know anything about more free storage but it seems unlikely since Hushmail is a commercial service. There are limits in PGP-encrypting HTML formatted messages.

Thanks for reply and the Hushmail link !

(Btw, my reference to ads was not so much to pop-ups, but to the fact that, at the free level, during sign-in one sees a "nag" screen offering premium services.)

[smicheals]

Does anyone know about the security of lavabit?

I am thinking this may be a coincidence, but maybe not. I made an account with lavabit on Saturday using the same password as my gmail account. My gmail account I was forwarding to was hacked on Sunday from a chinese IP address.

[malcarada]

Originally Posted by smicheals

Does anyone know about the security of lavabit?

I think it is a coincidence, I have had an account with Lavabit for 2years using the same password and never been hacked.

The only downside I see to Lavabit is that they also send your computer IP on the headers.

[digp]

Originally Posted by B4its2L8

Thanks for reply and the Hushmail link !

(Btw, my reference to ads was not so much to pop-ups, but to the fact that, at the free level, during sign-in one sees a "nag" screen offering premium services.)

Nothing of any interest there.

'Thank you for signing up for early access to the new Hushmail. We'll grant access to everyone over the next several months on a first-come, first-served basis. Thank you for your patience & we look forward to your feedback!'

[Tsunami]

Originally Posted by CarlS

Yeah, Safe-mail.net is a good service. They also have a virtual keyboard option. Hushmail also has a function to see logins (ip+time+date+country) and they also had logs of unsuccessful logins but the latter is no more. I would however like to point out that Safe-mail.net does not include PGP-encryption to other non-safemail accounts and they lack other functions which other services may have (like aliases) and Safe-mail does send the users IP-address to the recipient. Every secure e-mail provider has its pros and cons. It is quite a shame actually, in my belief it should be possible to create a service which has all functions that are available on the market today. It seems as if the secure e-mail providers does not look at each other and copy their ideas.

The IP thing doesn't bother me too much since my IP changes everytime I log on to the web anyway (like it is in many European countries)

What I love about Safe Mail is
a) it has no option to store passwords and sign in automatically. No worries about checking if the "remember password" box is unticked, and somehow it even manages to log in without Internet Explorer asking if you want to remember the password. I know no other email provider that does that, except LuxSci. Safe Mail is the only free provider where I've seen this very much appreciated fact.
b) the Safe Mail interface is extremely user friendly
c) Tracing succesful and unsuccesful log-ins
d) even while their terms state that accounts become defunct after X months without sign-in, they don't seem to enforce it (although with my Safe Mail account that is critical I make sure to sign in regularly rather than playing with fate )

The only downside is the slow support. But then the service is very good and user friendly, I don't see myself needing their support anytime soon.

Also note that Israel is known for its very advanced IT industry, so if new features in email get developed you can somewhat assume Safe Mail will be amongst the first to apply them. In fact, most computers have some bits and pieces developed in Israel or at least based on Israeli inventions. So due to their location Safe Mail will have rapid access to new developments and technologies.

[CarlS]

Originally Posted by Tsunami

The IP thing doesn't bother me too much since my IP changes everytime I log on to the web anyway (like it is in many European countries)

What I love about Safe Mail is
a) it has no option to store passwords and sign in automatically. No worries about checking if the "remember password" box is unticked, and somehow it even manages to log in without Internet Explorer asking if you want to remember the password. I know no other email provider that does that, except LuxSci. Safe Mail is the only free provider where I've seen this very much appreciated fact.
b) the Safe Mail interface is extremely user friendly
c) Tracing succesful and unsuccesful log-ins
d) even while their terms state that accounts become defunct after X months without sign-in, they don't seem to enforce it (although with my Safe Mail account that is critical I make sure to sign in regularly rather than playing with fate )

The only downside is the slow support. But then the service is very good and user friendly, I don't see myself needing their support anytime soon.

Also note that Israel is known for its very advanced IT industry, so if new features in email get developed you can somewhat assume Safe Mail will be amongst the first to apply them. In fact, most computers have some bits and pieces developed in Israel or at least based on Israeli inventions. So due to their location Safe Mail will have rapid access to new developments and technologies.

Well, you might consider going for a paid account? Then the support will probably be better.

I like being able to save my password since it is 64 characters. So Safe-mail is not something for me. And as for the IP you are traceable even though your IP-address changes from time to time since your ISP most likely keeps logs and anybody could probably from your IP-address pinpoint your whereabouts down to your city. Try for yourself with your current ip-address at http://whatismyipaddress.com