How CTemplar Over Tor Makes Your Email More Anonymous and Secure

If you want to send an anonymous email to someone, it is not enough to simply use a fake name or not use your regular email address. There is plenty of other information that can give away your location or identity on the web.

This includes your IP address, DNS server, ISP connections, cookies and more.

Establishing secure and anonymous email communication is not an easy thing to do and to most people, this takes second place behind speed and convenience. However, with so many dangers online, including hackers and other bad actors trying to steal your information, there is no excuse for not doing everything you can to secure your email.

Would you leave the front door to your house wide open because “there is nothing to steal”?

Of course not and neither should you do the same with your email.

Use Tor for Anonymous Email Communication

There are numerous ways to protect your email and ensure that the emails you send can’t be traced back to you, such as using a VPN or a proxy server, but one of the best ways to do that is to use the Tor network while emailing.

CTemplar is a private email service that you can connect to anonymously using the Tor browser and not worry about being traced via IP or some other way.

What is a Tor Network and Tor Browser?

Tor is a free software for enabling anonymous communication that uses over seven thousand relays to hide your location and usage from network surveillance and traffic analysis.

When you are connected to the “regular” Internet, websites that you want to visit will end up with a TLD like .com, .org and so on. For instance, if you want to visit CTemplar, you can find it on the ctemplar.com address.

Tor is different. Websites on the Tor network do not end with typical .com or other TLD, but instead, they use .onion.

However, you can’t just change .com for .onion and connect to a site. If you do that, you’ll get an error. 

For instance, if you try to visit the ctemplar.onion site you’ll get this error message, telling you that the server IP address can’t be found:

What you need to do is to first download and install the Tor browser on your computer or mobile device by visiting Tor Project.

Once you’ve downloaded and installed the Tor browser, open it and type in the CTemplar onion address http://ctemplarpizuduxk3fkwrieizstx33kg5chlvrh37nz73pv5smsvl6ad.onion/ and you’ll be able to access CTemplar encrypted email via Tor. Again, don’t try to access it via regular Internet connection as you’ll get an error.

From here, you can use your CTemplar account, or if you don’t have one already sign up to Create an Account, just like you would do on a regular .com address.

What are the Benefits of Using a Tor Browser?

Using a Tor network and browser provides a number of benefits for those that are seeking more privacy and anonymity when online. 

Here are some advantages of using Tor:

  1. It offers more anonymity than regular browsing. This is because data packets go through several nodes that make IP tracking virtually impossible. The only thing someone looking at your connection can see is the previous and next node, but not the original or the final node;
  2. Being an open-source software makes Tor more secure when it comes to malicious software (malware). Tor is run by a community of volunteers that quickly take care of malicious code. You can download the source code yourself via the Tor Project page;
  3. It’s available on all devices and several operating systems, including PCs, Macs, Linux, iOS and Android;
  4. It’s available in more than 30 different languages (with more added continually), besides English, including German, French, Spanish, Russia, Arabic, Chinese and other languages.

Things to Keep in Mind About Tor

All that said, Tor isn’t absolutely perfect and if you intend to use Tor email services, you should be familiar with some of the downsides of this browser. Namely:

  1. Tor itself does not encrypt your data. However, CTemplar uses the strongest 4096-bit end-to-end AES encryption so you don’t need to worry when using CTemplar via the Tor;
  2. Slow start up. If you’re used to Chrome or another regular browser, you’ll be a bit unpleasantly surprised at how slow Tor can be to load;
  3. It runs very slowly. If you didn’t figure out from the point above, Tor is not something you want to use when you want a fast connection. While the layer-like distribution is a great security solution, it works very slowly. In other words, don’t stream movies on Tor.

Conclusion

CTemplar is the best anonymous email you’ll find, but using it via the Tor browser, takes your anonymity to a whole new level.

Accessing CTemplar via Tor browser gives you all the benefits of the best anonymous email and Tor in one.

Even without Tor, CTemplar privacy email service provides a ton of security features for a more confidential email, including:

Ready to take back your email privacy from government agencies and Google’s prying eyes? You can do that with CTemplar privacy email service. The team at CTemplar is dedicated to ensuring your anonymity and security when emailing. We are also always looking for feedback from our community, so feel free to connect with us on Reddit at r/ctemplar.

Looking forward to hearing from you!