Hello all. A friend of mind has recommended me black.com an encrypted mail services that I had never heard of…
It hasn’t a free services, it is 3.5€/m, 25gb, aliases… and I quote:
“Emails are zero-access encrypted (AES-GCM-256 with RSA-OAEP-4096 key sharing) with a password-derived key, which means that not even we can access the contents of your emails at rest. Our system encrypts subjects, headers, message contents, attachments, email drafts and push notifications.”
Sounds like what Startmail and Posteo are doing. The problem is that when you access your email (via browser/webmail or app/IMAP) your stuff gets decrypted temporarily. So it’s just privacy theatre. Happy to be proven wrong in this case though.
Founders also don’t seem to have any pedigree or background in security/privacy.
Couldn’t find any legitimate reviews outside of their website, no audits too, so I’d recommend stay away. Why not use the recommended services like Tuta, Proton, etc.?
Tuta deleted the accounts I had, one of them even paid… Proton (I was visionary) doesn’t have a single product that is not half baked. I use Linux, I can only use SimpleLogin and barely the web mail.
Ah, makes sense if you had bad experience with them. I have mostly moved away from using personal mail for any actual communication. It’s mostly used to sign up for services with Proton aliases.
Sorry, won’t be able to help with an alternative then, but would recommend staying away from this black(dot)com mail, seems very sketchy.
Agree. Thats NOT that hard BTW: If you can afford, buy your own physical server. Dont go with VPS/dedicated. This will cost you higher, but its one time payment.