EasyCrypt

 

EasyCrypt, a company formed in August 2016, and operating out of Switzerland, provides e-mail encryption regardless of the e-mail provider that you use (i.e. Gmail. Mail.ru, Yandex, etc.).  Although still in the beta version, EasyCrypt protects your e-mail communication between EasyCrypt users with PGP encryption.

 

Very simply it works like this... (1) you create an EasyCrypt account and associate it with your current e-mail. (2) you then access your regular e-mail account through EasyCrypt at https://webmail.easycrypt.co/login/ (3) you then send and receive e-mail as you normally would, but if the recipient of your e-mail is an EasyCrypt user, or has a PGP Public Key that you have imported into your EasyCrypt account, that e-mail is automatically encrypted. Much more detail about how it works is on the EasyCrypt web-site.

 

Anyone accessing your EasyCrypt messages directly (i.e. logging into Gmail directly, and not through EasyCrypt) will only see a PGP encrypted message:

 

-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Version: OpenPGP.js v2.3.3
Comment: This is an encrypted email. To view in EasyCrypt, go to  https://webmail.easycrypt.co/

wcFMA/5bAOvSNNvbAQ/5ATGuukrn3I5JXhATLZtY29kh0tQCdRzhFh/+OVRh
Ru6LKfabB4+dQpcibKrWohDQKrav1jzf8HucUuB0Ta9OpfH5UeA74nFr9/lR
c0nhOmS3mAxi4+p6nMTCAgkWVSDAJDXLPjeJgCHOk94t+ds5FWMzbFVdogcc
d4+T3Qy4vuR8KH0eVk78+yr5fEhBbxqLSE2rW1y6LrWjXGjVmlW2TQQHGyfn
QDlMshnV9EEgnmIOYG5lxKpH82JPCQ9AVML6AvdlZbYfmbdUdqpH9G/q7VM3
eThBTcB8BRK5wOL82sBMlux2GydkbPJvQc27TStDKaj5Mepp4qnTjySBlZ5v
2NiJgpDWapVQFSPjIdCroTyrie35ssrx1G4cAq9vhFMCr8tGyYOAhIg/+Vhj
4SC2YJKGHJkVMqS6whOnuFcO03z2rV2ORrLxA8nlJugQu2m6AbGWze2fHg==
=Lq4F
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----

 

You can still send and receive e-mail through EasyCrypt to people who don't use EasyCrypt or who don't have a PGP key, but these e-mails won't be encrypted.

 

Setting up my EasyCrypt account was quick and easy. The only difference now is that I access my e-mail through the EasyCrypt webmail site, instead of going directly to my Gmail, Mail.ru, etc. site. It's then just a matter of getting others to set up and EasyCrypt account and access their mail through EasyCrypt in order to automatically encrypt your messages to each other.

 

I also like that EasyCrypt has a .onion address so that you can access your e-mail through TOR.

 

As EasyCrypt continues to develop its service, I think it will become more and more useful as a way of safeguarding our on-line privacy. As it currently stands, EasyCrypt is a well... "easy" way of adding PGP encryption to your current e-mail account.



 

 

 

 

I first mentioned EasyCrypt back in January 2018, and while I did not recommend it at that time - I had just started using it - after six months of using EasyCrypt to protect my e-mail; it is a product and service that I can now recommend to you as an effective way to safeguard your e-mail messages.