Show HN: End-to-end encrypted email, based in Switzerland
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Re: Show HN: End-to-end encrypted email, based in Switzerland
#2Is that similar to zerobin (http://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=php:zerobin) where server has no knowledge of the content of a message?
Re: Show HN: End-to-end encrypted email, based in Switzerland
#3Funny, when I hear "Switzerland" I think about how just this morning I heard that the American IRS has finally broken the long standing tradition of Swiss banking privacy, and that CreditSuisse will be paying billions of dollars in fines.
Re: Show HN: End-to-end encrypted email, based in Switzerland
#4Funny, when I hear "Switzerland" I think about how just this morning I heard that the American IRS has finally broken the long standing tradition of Swiss banking privacy, and that CreditSuisse will be paying billions of dollars in fines.
Well, selling out American millionaires is one thing, I have a feeling the Swiss would be less willing to sell out private communications to the NSA.
Re: Show HN: End-to-end encrypted email, based in Switzerland
#5How does searching work ?
Re: Show HN: End-to-end encrypted email, based in Switzerland
#6From the page source:
"We only use GA on our Home and Invite pages to view where traffic is coming from as we prepare for beta. We will be removing GA and all third party sourced scripts from the site afterwards. - Jason"
So far we are still tracked by GA, so IDK...
Re: Show HN: End-to-end encrypted email, based in Switzerland
#7This appears to be a PHP wrapper around OpenPGP.js. If the encryption comes from Javascript loaded by browsers from the servers every time they visit the site, the encryption isn't "end to end". It's controlled by the server and can be broken by the server.
Also: the RSA Security logo isn't the logo of the RSA algorithm; it's the logo of the company that sells RSA tokens.
Re: Show HN: End-to-end encrypted email, based in Switzerland
#8Funny, when I hear "Switzerland" I think about how just this morning I heard that the American IRS has finally broken the long standing tradition of Swiss banking privacy, and that CreditSuisse will be paying billions of dollars in fines.
Well, selling out American millionaires is one thing, I have a feeling the Swiss would be less willing to sell out private communications to the NSA.
Because...
Re: Show HN: End-to-end encrypted email, based in Switzerland
#9This is a browser addon, right?
Is everything loaded locally? If no, what prevents you from putting up some javascript that transfers the decryption password (or the plain text) to you.
Sorry, didn't bother to download and look for the source code, to find out how the inner mechanics work. The website doesn't give much information either.
Re: Show HN: End-to-end encrypted email, based in Switzerland
#10Wow. How exactly does one do this given there have been 15 years of well documented problems with exactly this model of deploying "secure mail"?