The development team of CERN launched protected anonymous email service ProtonMail

Several employees of the European Laboratory for Nuclear Research (CERN) developed postal service ProtonMail , who pretends to be one of the most protected - all the contents of mailboxes encrypted on the client side and server ProtonMail located in Switzerland, which is famous for its laws on personal data protection. The creators of the service argue that ProtonMail able to surpass the vulnerability by recently closed Lavabit , which was used, among others, and Edward Snowden.

ProtonMail managed to take several prizes at competitions start-ups, and on May 15 began open beta testing. True number of people willing to try the service was so great that the servers could not stand the load and time is introduced registration mode for an invite. Once the project team to increase capacity, the registration will be open again. Monetize ProtonMail assumed by the model Freemium. The creators promise that the minimum set of services will be free forever.

Posts ProtonMail not stored on servers in the clear - they are encrypted on the client side. To authorize use two passwords - one for your account and download the encrypted data, the second - for their decryption. Password recovery is impossible to decipher letters, correspondence with his loss is not reversed - this is the inevitable price of increased security. Along with encrypted correspondence, mailbox ProtonMail be used, just like any other, send and receive both open and encrypted messages. Communication between two clients ProtonMail also possible to send messages with a limited lifetime, that self-destruct after a preset time.

Apart from the technical means of protection of privacy and anonymity, ProtonMail uses advantageous features of Swiss law. Switzerland is not only obeys the laws of the United States, but is not part of the EU, and to oblige the company to give the customer data, you need to have a long and expensive way in the Swiss courts. And even then access the correspondence is not possible, because even the owners themselves do not have a service encryption keys. To work around these situations in the legislation of many countries have regulations that oblige the company to incorporate bugs in their products at the request of the security services. However, in Switzerland it is only possible for providers of Internet access and service providers for such a rule no.



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