Comments on: Proton mail: Scientists from CERN and MIT offer encrypted email to escape NSA surveillance

By: bushcamper

bushcamper — Fri, 30 May 2014 21:55:13 +0000

if it is web based, “someone” can patch the javascript code, and extract the keys during processing. please understand, we are yet far from a statement like “The Only Email System The NSA Can’t Access”. there is a lot of work still to be done.

By: Josef

Josef — Tue, 27 May 2014 16:15:32 +0000

Thanks for your comment Tom,

First, actually, from what I understand, this doesn’t work quite the same way as hushmail does.

Second, according to their website they cannot compromise your mail because they don’t have the encryption keys. Also, being based in Switzerland (where they have strong privacy laws) means there isn’t really many appropriate documents that can be served.

Still, this isn’t open source, so I’m personally more interested in http://mailpile.is

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 27 May 2014 05:48:08 +0000

First, Hushmail has been doing this for years.

Second, if it’s webmail, they can and will compromise your mails when served with the appropriate documents. If you want to be safe, you have to encrypt yourself. Get PGP and/or S/MIME and convince all your friends to use it, too.