Encrypted Email Options

There's really only one way to ensure that your emailsare kept confidential....encrypt them. The two most popular forms of email encryption are OpenPGP and S/MIME. Encryption scrambles your email into something unintelligible that only someone who has the correct digital "key" can read.

If you are located outside of the US (in a safe country) likesome of our sources then using gmail is not as risky as it would be for John Smith in BFE, Montana. The feds have shown over and over that they can easily access U.S. based non-encrypted email providers like yahoo, hotmail and gmail.

So far, with the exception of Keptprivate, encrypted email providers located in the U.S. have successfully hidden behind their inability to crack their encryption in order to avoid cooperation with the Feds, but Congress is already worlking on changing that: http://www.informationweek.com/news/...ment/240000653

The honest answer is that nothing is truly 100% secure. However, if you are a betting man, I would roll the dice on any provider located as far from the U.S.as possible. I like the below listed choices (especially s-mail because theyare located in Russia):

countermail - server is insweden and you pay for use
mutemail - server is Bahamas and you pay for use
s-mail - server is in russia and service is free
guardmail - server appears to be in germany but not positive and service isfree
safe-mail - server is in Israel you pay for use
ssl.mailvault - server is in germany and service is free
anonymouspeech - server is in Panama and service is free

Cyber-rights.net and hushmail.com are two other free options located in Canada, but they may be working with the Feds. Hushmail cooperated during ORD and should not be trusted.

This list is not all inclusive, so feel free to add to the list if you have another encrypted email provider option.