Encrypted chat app Target is also gaining traction. There is also a new app on theĪpp Store called Signal, which encrypts calls by using an existing phone number without the need of another identifier. The Blackphone started shipping in early July for an affordable $629.

Other recent launches include Blackphone, an Android smartphone that promises users encrypted calls, texts, emails and internet browsing. 'Our aim is to create an app that appeals to both the mainstream and tech savvy consumer who should just be able to speak freely and not have to worry about eavesdroppers or data leaks,' says Christian Averill, a BitTorrent spokesman. It is still at a pre-alpha stage, meaning the company is inviting a selected few users to try it out and help them find bugs. BitTorrent Inc., San Francisco –based maker of peer-to-peer products, has recently introduced Bleep, a chat application that lets users connect directly (via text or voice) without going through centralized servers. Will also give higher page rankings on its search results to sites that use secure encryption. If they're successful, it would mark a big step in bringing encrypted messaging - long the province of privacy hawks and conspiracy theorists - to a consumer-friendly service. Yahoo said they would start encrypting their email services by next year. ProtonMail is developing a mobile app, and hopes to break into the mass market with encrypted chat and file storage. Yen said there are already 250,000 people using ProtonMail, and believes his company would reach a million users at the end of the year. 'Privacy in many ways is much more valuable.'Īpplications like ProtonMail are still in their early stages and it is unclear whether they will capture a mainstream audience. Yen, who started the email service on crowdfunding site Indiegogo, where it raised nearly six times more than its original goal of $100,000 in just over a month. 'People don't want to give up their data so freely,' says Mr.

ProtonMail hosts its servers in Switzerland outside US and EU jurisdiction, so all user data is protected by strict Swiss privacy laws. On top of the encryption, each user is given two passwords, with ProtonMail only having access to one.Īccording to Andy Yen, one of the co-founders of the Geneva-based ProtonMail, the company doesn't monetize any data from its users, and doesn't hold the users' encryption keys. Scientists launched an email service called ProtonMail which looks like any other commercial email service – its appeal is that the complex encryption is invisible to the user - but lets users send each other encrypted messages before they even reach ProtonMail's server.

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