Encrypted Email Provider ProtonMail Opens to the Public, Accepts Bitcoin Payments

ProtonMail offers free, end-to-end encrypted email. Bitcoin users are no strangers to cryptography. After all, Bitcoin wouldn't even exist without it, since cryptography prevents double spending and allows the network to verify ownership of coins. Of course, the primary purpose of cryptography has always been secret communication, and a new service called ProtonMail is offering exactly that. ProtonMail is an email service offering full end-to-end encryption. The service is currently free, and the company plans to offer premium accounts that'll accept bitcoin payments in the near future. I....

Encrypted email service provider ProtonMail recently and grudgingly gave in to a ransom demand of 15 bitcoin (approx $6000) to attackers who targeted the service with destructive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. ProtonMail, an encrypted email service set up by CERN scientists in Geneva and researchers at MIT, has revealed crippling DDoS attacks to be the cause of a recent outage suffered by the crypto e-mail service provider. Two groups are believed to be behind the attacks, one of which began the cyber-strikes and put forth the ransom demand. The website remains down at the....

Yet another PayPal horror story... Running an email service is neither easy nor cheap, especially when it's designed to thwart mass surveillance. ProtonMail is a free, end-to-end encrypted email provider based in Switzerland (away from the NSA) and strives to protect its users in an age where privacy has become a commodity. In order to keep its services free, ProtonMail will offer premium accounts to cover the costs of the free accounts, and the team recently launched a fundraising campaign to support the addition of new features. However, after raising nearly $300,000, PayPal surprised....

A team of developers from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has launched a new encrypted email service that could put an end to government snooping - with a little help from bitcoin. The system, called ProtonMail, works by encrypting the data in the browser before it ever comes into contact with the server. So, even if someone gains complete access to the server, it won't do them any good because ProtonMail does not store the encryption key. Group effort. ProtonMail was conceived by PhD student Andy Yen, who called on fellow CERN scientists to examine the problem of....

Since its launch 17 years ago in 1999, FastMail has continued its legacy as one of the most prominent privacy and security focused email service providers in the industry. FastMail, an email service offering paid email accounts for individuals and organizations has silently been accepting bitcoin payments for premium upgrade via BitPay. Since its launch 17 years ago in 1999, FastMail has continued its legacy as one of the most prominent privacy and security focused email service providers in the industry. Today, FastMail is the only email service provider amongst popular platforms....