CryptoCat, for example, is quite controversial among security experts because of a vulnerability an an earlier version of the chat tool. Other attempts to simplify the process of secure chat or secure email have occasionally been curtailed either by doubts about their technical security.
If you want to chat securely with me, ask me for my AIM account.) (One notable exception: Many chat clients, including Adium - but not Google Talk - offer an off-the-record (OTR) chat mode that is extremely simple to set up and offers “ perfect forward secrecy,” meaning each chat session is encrypted with a unique key. Encrypted chats have, until recently, been almost as problematic. The trouble is that setting up encrypted email has generally been a difficult matter. Yen said basic accounts would always be free, but that in the future the company would charge power users a “modest monthly fee” for additional storage, in order to make ProtonMail into a self-sustaining business.Įnd-to-end encryption is one of the few ways to ensure true privacy in any communications channel.
Accounts on ProtonMail are free (though at the moment you have to sign up for a waiting list before you can create an account).