When it comes to send encrypted email messages the easiest way to do it is by using a webmail service that supports it, with email encryption working in the background you do not have to worry about digital certificates and PGP encryption keys, everyone can use it with zero knowledge about encryption, the responsibility for keeping the messages secure lying with the provider and not the user.
With eCrypt.me you can send messages just like you would do with any other webmail service but their end to end encryption making it impossible for others to read it, eCrypt.me doesn’t have as many features as Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo have, it appears to have been designed with businesses in mind, maximizing employee productivity and making it very easy to use with a zero training curve, it doesn’t use Java like Hushmail does, its email interface loads quickly, it is simple and easy to use, the communications between eCrypt.me and your browser is secured via SSL with a Verisign digital certificate using AES256 encryption.
Registering an account with eCrypt.me requires you to have a valid email address where to receive an activation email, check the spam folder because that is where it went in my case, the service allows you to use your own email as username to login, in order for someone to communicate with you using end to end encryption they will need to have an account with eCrypt.me, this happens with all other webmail services using encryption, and it is the biggest drawback of these kind of services, both sides have to use the same service for encryption to take place.
eCrypt.me has a FileVault where you can upload files for storage, the files (photos, pdf,etc) can not be viewed in your browser, it just makes it easy to send encrypted attachments selecting them from the FileVault when you compose an email. There is an account activity log that tells you the last login IP, this log can be exported as CSV, Excel and XML, a basic statistics screen tells you the mailbox and bandwidth usage, the security settings have two basic choices, encrypting email subjects and password time out settings.
Overall this is a very simple webmail service, if you like easy to use no nonsense webmail with encryption that is useful to send email and nothing else you will feel at home, I would consider this webmail service if I had a business with a high turn over employee because I would not have to train people on how to send encrypted email and employees can’t waste their time in messengers and others non work related features that some email services have.
This encryption webmail service is still in beta release, at the moment it is free to use, I doubt it will be once it comes out of beta because someone needs to pay the bills.
With eCrypt.me you can send messages just like you would do with any other webmail service but their end to end encryption making it impossible for others to read it, eCrypt.me doesn’t have as many features as Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo have, it appears to have been designed with businesses in mind, maximizing employee productivity and making it very easy to use with a zero training curve, it doesn’t use Java like Hushmail does, its email interface loads quickly, it is simple and easy to use, the communications between eCrypt.me and your browser is secured via SSL with a Verisign digital certificate using AES256 encryption.
eCrypt.me encrypted webmail service
eCrypt.me has a FileVault where you can upload files for storage, the files (photos, pdf,etc) can not be viewed in your browser, it just makes it easy to send encrypted attachments selecting them from the FileVault when you compose an email. There is an account activity log that tells you the last login IP, this log can be exported as CSV, Excel and XML, a basic statistics screen tells you the mailbox and bandwidth usage, the security settings have two basic choices, encrypting email subjects and password time out settings.
Overall this is a very simple webmail service, if you like easy to use no nonsense webmail with encryption that is useful to send email and nothing else you will feel at home, I would consider this webmail service if I had a business with a high turn over employee because I would not have to train people on how to send encrypted email and employees can’t waste their time in messengers and others non work related features that some email services have.
This encryption webmail service is still in beta release, at the moment it is free to use, I doubt it will be once it comes out of beta because someone needs to pay the bills.
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