Re:Ask HN: How do you encrypt your email?
by waterphone on Monday June 10, 2013 @10:47AM
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Note that Fastmail is hosted in Australia, which is a partner nation in ECHELON.
You mean UKUSA. ECHELON has nothing to do with this particular area of surveillance.
"We support TLS/SSL with all of our protocols. TLS/SSL is designed to encrypt all traffic and prevents eavesdropping, tampering, and message forgery on any communication between your computer and our servers."
https://www.fastmail.fm/help/overview_security.html