Peerio Launches With Easy To Use End-To-End Encrypted Email

[Guest]

Cryptocat creator launched Peerio, a simple app that can send end-to-end encrypted email, based on core technology from his previous miniLock encrypted file-sharing app.

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[Guest]

Anyone find it weird that google couldn't do this, in say, a week?

 

[fredch]

"Protonmail, made by a few CERN scientists, gathered quite a bit of attention for its ease of use last year. The problem is that it doesn't use true end-to-end encryption, as the keys are managed by the company's server. Thus, it's not much more secure than a service like Gmail. "

This is plainly wrong Proton mail use a password to identify user, but all data are encrypted or decrypted locally by your web browser using the pass phrase you set up. Proton mail has no access to clear text.

 

[NotProfit]

Absolutely laughable. This is NOT the only end to end encrypted email service. How in the hell did this get posted?

 

[Lucian Armasu]

Absolutely laughable. This is NOT the only end to end encrypted email service. How in the hell did this get posted?

PGP is the only reliable End-to-End encryption mechanism right now. Many "services" that promise end-to-end encryption aren't in fact using proper end-to-end encryption. Which did you have in mind?

 

[Lucian Armasu]

"Protonmail, made by a few CERN scientists, gathered quite a bit of attention for its ease of use last year. The problem is that it doesn't use true end-to-end encryption, as the keys are managed by the company's server. Thus, it's not much more secure than a service like Gmail. "

This is plainly wrong Proton mail use a password to identify user, but all data are encrypted or decrypted locally by your web browser using the pass phrase you set up. Proton mail has no access to clear text.

That's true, and in that sense it's "end to end encrypted". However, the server seems to control the crypto implementation, which means the server can change that crypto implementation, to weaken your encryption. The granted, the same could probably be done with Peerio's Chrome extension, since Chrome's extensions update automatically, but not with the Windows and Mac OS X apps.