Show HN: End-to-end encrypted email, based in Switzerland

Re:Show HN: End-to-end encrypted email, based in Switzerland by tptacek on Friday May 16, 2014 @04:43PM (#7757797)

I don't know about the "perfect" and the "good", but the "trivially breakable" is definitely the enemy of "keeping secrets from governments".

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Re:Show HN: End-to-end encrypted email, based in Switzerland by pdx on Friday May 16, 2014 @04:48PM (#7757823)

You choose to ignore my point. Obviously you know about "perfect" and "better than gmail", right?

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Re:Show HN: End-to-end encrypted email, based in Switzerland by tptacek on Friday May 16, 2014 @04:50PM (#7757836)

Then Gmail is more secure than this service, because Google's servers are pinned in browsers, so you can't compromise them by compromising any CA in the CA hierarchy.

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Re:Show HN: End-to-end encrypted email, based in Switzerland by fareastcoast on Friday May 16, 2014 @04:59PM (#7757878)

I don't really agree with this. Gmail is compromised by the NSA sending one email to Google.

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Re:Show HN: End-to-end encrypted email, based in Switzerland by prayag on Friday May 16, 2014 @05:14PM (#7757953)

I hear you dude but this is clearly not "end-to-end" encryption. End-to-end has a very specific meaning. End-to-end encryption means a messaging system in which one or more compromised node from node 1 to N-1 could not eavesdrop on the message. In this solution if you get access to node 1 (the server), you get access to the message. It's binary. There's either end-to-end encryption or there isn't. This one isn't.

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