Secure Webmail Providers?

Rainier Wolfecastle asks: "I am looking for information on any webmail providers that support PGP/GnuPG encryption. Up until now I have been using Lok Technology's excellent service, but it appears that they have gone out of business, since their site has been unreachable for over two weeks now. I am aware of Hushmail, but that doesn't work well under Linux. I am considering using Name.Space's LokMail service (based on Lok Technology's..er...technology) but I was wondering if anyone out there has any other suggestions. Free email is coming to an end, and if I'm going to pay for it (which I don't mind at all) then I want a decent product."

Comments

Re:What's the point...

[Twirlip of the Mists]

Hey... how can the parent comment be "overrated" if it hasn't been moderated by anybody else?

Because while you can moderate up for being informative or insightful, you can't (at present) moderate down for being dumb or wrong. As long as the down-mod options are limited to troll, off-topic, flamebait, and overrated, expect to see comments that are just plain stupid moderated "overrated."

Seems to me that if there's a "+1, Informative," there ought to be a "-1, Misinformative."

Re:Problems with Encrypted Webmail

[photon317]

It's worse than that. If they root the webmail server (or a little more difficult if they just get the webserver UID), they can read the SSL traffic, including your passphrase. In short the only way to have securely encrypted email is to store the private key on your own private local machine - a webmail service simply cannot gaurantee you jack.