startmail

Discussion in 'privacy technology' started by simmersK00L, Jan 15, 2017.

  1. simmersK00L

    simmersK00L Registered Member

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    Not finding any discussion of startmail. claims that it uses PGP and is both secure and private. apparenlty run by the same folks who provide startpage.com startmail has a free 7 day account and then you can upgrade, ie, pay yearly fee, currently about $60. no 2fa, yet, and support says no immediate plans to add 2fa. I have a trial_account, and what I notice so far is occasional server timeouts 404...

    has anyone here used and "tested" it, ie, reviewed it, other than pcmag

    http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2476909,00.asp

    https://www.startmail.com/
     
  2. compleo

    compleo Registered Member

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    I never used it but checked the web site. I like offshore server but no mention regarding zero knowledge, encrypted attachments/metadata or frontend/backend audit.
     
  3. guest

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    Emails are stored in a "User Vault", which is an encrypted LUKS-volume and they are using PGP/MIME, so attachments are encrypted too.
    But parts of Startmail's Source Code is Closed Source ("as a security measure").
    More information can be found in the Technical whitepaper:
    https://www.startmail.com/documents/whitepaper/whitepaper.en_US.pdf
     
  4. simmersK00L

    simmersK00L Registered Member

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    thank you mood & compleo. I'll read the whitepaper, but always good to hear from knowledgeable users... I'm still on the fence.
     
  5. summerheat

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    You might also want to look into mailbox.org. I've been using them for about 2 years or so and am happy with them. I don't use them with PGP, though. Here's their security/encryption concept.
     
  6. Jerry666

    Jerry666 Registered Member

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    I've used it for 2 years now , no problems .
     
  7. simmersK00L

    simmersK00L Registered Member

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    thanks, I'll checkout mailbox.org. I've been ok with cotse.net, maybe I should simply start using my gpg on that server, I can now see that might be the way to go.
     
  8. simmersK00L

    simmersK00L Registered Member

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    good to know. Thanks. I saw a couple of unhappy user comments earlier today, but I just stumbled across them, don't recall where. Can I ask, did you sign up anonymously, ie pay anonymously? I guess you can be anonymous if you, eg, pay with a pre-funded visa card. I've never used one, but might. Seems like a purpose of using private encrypted account is to keep it as private as possible...
     
  9. Jerry666

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    Did not pay annonymously , just wanted a semi secure email and am willing to pay for it .
     
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