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Warranty Canary: No law enforcement agencies have been here. Watch for this statement’s removal or change. (What is a Warrant Canary?) Zero censorship policy. We do not censor harmful or revealing content about our company. We will publish all negative articles written...

We make a pledge to our community that we will not use censorship to hide negative press about our company.  Instead, we will publish negative or unedited articles about our company on this page with credit to the author/researcher.  If...

CTemplar’s 4 Wall Protection 4 Wall Protection was defined by the CTemplar team with the goal of helping people review their privacy needs. Imagine that your privacy is a four-walled fortress. If a wall is missing, then an enemy can...

Privacy as Seen Through Fourteen Eyes The history of citizen surveillance boils down to one simple theory: The more eyes you have watching citizens both friend and foe, the easier it is for governments to maintain peace and order. The...

CTemplar Recognizes Protonmail’s OpenPGPjs Maintenance Edward Snowden stated: “Encryption, is the single best hope for fighting surveillance of any kind. If all our data, including our communications, were enciphered in this fashion, from end to end…then no government—no entity conceivable...

How does encryption work in CTemplar? CTemplar uses OpenPGP for end-to-end encryption of emails. It is the most widely used email encryption standard. It is defined by the OpenPGP Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as a...

We are pleased to announce that we have launched Android mobile app for beta testing. It is available for any Android user by visiting the Google Play store. You can also find it by clicking this link. Open Source Android Code...

DDOS Attack Mitigation With CDN’s A DDOS attack involves flooding the targeted website with traffic to overload it’s capacity and results with the website going offline.  Criminals might use a DDOS attack to extort the web service for money by...

Why the Price?   Providing an encrypted email service costs money. Some companies, like Gmail and Yahoo, offer free email because they profit from collecting and selling your personal information.   We charge a subscription fee because we do not sell our...

Email Comparison Table Protonmail strengths not mentioned above: Protonmail launched May 16, 2014 and CTemplar launched September 5th 2018.  Protonmail’s added experience in this industry has created a more polished service than CTemplar. Protonmail also maintains the OpenPGPjs library that we use.  We...

Why Iceland? We host our user’s data on servers in Iceland because it offers the strongest legal protection for email users that want security and privacy.  Here are the reasons why: 1. Iceland Has No Data Retention Laws for Webmail....

Encrypted Email Services Can Hack You Using JavaScript JavaScript can be used to serve malicious code, exploits, or hacks. This is illustrated by Gizmodo, USENIX, Ask Leo, Stack Exchange, ITNEXT, and it is a recurring theme at the hacker conference DEFCON. JavaScript hacks are also the primary...