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Have you ever sent an email that you instantly regretted after hitting “send”? Maybe you sent an email to the wrong person or it was an angry mail to your boss, telling them (in not so kind words) what you...

Try to imagine the Internet without the email. It doesn’t work, does it? The two just go hand in hand and are almost inseparable.  You probably have at least one email account if not more. The email was and still...

For all the freedom the Internet gives us, there’s a surprising number of things we just can’t or shouldn’t say in an email.  We have to keep quiet about how corrupt our boss is lest he finds out we’ve been...

Email is one of the cornerstones of online communication. Small wonder there as email is probably the easiest and cheapest long-distance communication medium. All you need is a computer, an email account (it’s free) and the email address of another...

Our CTemplar email apps for Android, F-Droid & iOS have all been released. We have worked hard to be sure you do not feel this way.   However, these are new apps and I’m sure there are bugs we do not...

Recently we have limited free account creation by invite only.  In the future, we might disable all new account creation for both free & paid.  We sincerely apologize for this inconvenience and we want to explain why this is happening....

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...

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...

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...

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...

Comparison tables are often used to show the differences between services.  We respect these services, we have reviewed this table with both services and even recommend to them our users when we are not able to meet demand.  This is...

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...