What's the best secure email provider?

July1962

Can anyone recommend a really easy to use, free secure email provider.
I've been told of Hush and S-Mail... or is there a better one anywhere?

At the moment I'm considering Hush as the best option.

Any info/advice gratefully received!

dragon934

I think hush mail. What sort of features are you looking for. Are you after online storage aswell?
Gmail is secure too. How secure do you need to be? All providers encrypt to an extent

JasX

was going to post in your other thread but here also seems relevant,

Apparently gmail is fairly good at using SSL for the whole session

http://elephantsquared.com/2010/01/13/gmail-security-and-the-vulnerability-in-ssl-tls-protocol/

but
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/even-ssl-gmail-can-get-sidejacked/842
(tho thats pretty extreme and hopefully your OH won't be going quite that far)

Also this was mentioned in the above article and might be worth trying out
https://crypto.stanford.edu/forcehttps/



....I might start re-jigging my email security too after all this

July1962

I don't need online storage, just want to send/receive emails.
I already have googlemail - is that a much better option that yahoo? Is it as safe as Hush?
I'm on a home network and I don't want the administrator of the router to be able to hijack my messages in/out of the house.

July1962

Thank you JazX

nowtsquared

Gmail is secure (uses https), and can show you when and where (IP address) you last logged into your a/c.
Sorry can't comment on the services you mentioned.

dragon934

You could use something like fireGPG to encrypt before sending
Don't think you can actually use fireGPG anymore though, its discontinued

dragon934

July1962 wrote: »

I don't need online storage, just want to send/receive emails.
I already have googlemail - is that a much better option that yahoo? Is it as safe as Hush?
I'm on a home network and I don't want the administrator of the router to be able to hijack my messages in/out of the house.

If your Administrator can hijack your data aren't you always going to be at risk as long as your using email. It would be easier for your administrator to gain access to your PC itself

weegie.geek

Hushmail is much more secure than Gmail. Allowances are very tight though, unless you pay.

Mr_Oink

It would help to define 'secure' and what it means to the OP. Are we talking 'secure' as in keeping miscreants out of the account? Are we talking 'secure' as in https for webmail? Are we talking 'secure' as in forces TLS (encryption) throughout the SMTP phase?

Different folk have different ideas as to what 'secure' means in the context of email - I'm guessing (and that's all it is) you may mean 'less likely to be hacked' in which case the answer is probably 'they are all probably about the same' :-)

JasX

Mr_Oink wrote: »

It would help to define 'secure' and what it means to the OP.

OP has another thread, they are worried their OH is accessign their emails somehow, they believe their computer is secure but are concerned about traffic being inspected on their home network (which OH has access to)