Whiteout Networks is based in München, Germany and thus should benefit the users thanks to Germany's and the European Union's stronger privacy protections.
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According to the company, the funds will be used for:ĭevelopment for the client application on all mobile platforms, including Android, iOS, Firefox OS, Windows Phone.Engaging top UI/UX experts to improve the ease of use of application and service even more.Working with the open source community on developing an industry standard for synchronizing private and public keys between devices.Scaling the backend server infrastructure for running Whiteout Mailbox. Whiteout Networks recently launched an IndieGoGo campaign to try to raise more funds to further develop the service. Oliver Gajek, the founder of Whiteout Networks, also said that the company is aware of Google's efforts, and when the End-to-End project is complete, Whiteout will talk to that service as well. Whiteout does this automatically by querying well-known public key servers and finding your contacts' public keys, which then allows you to send them encrypted emails. The process is so difficult and cumbersome that many just give up on trying to make it work.
The main difficulty in using PGP encryption is exchanging public keys with your contacts. Multiple companies, including Google and Yahoo, are trying to make PGP easier to use, and Whiteout has attempted the same with its service by making it as easy to use as any other email service. At the same time, it has also been proven reliable for the past two decades. PGP is not the perfect end-to-end encryption protocol, and it has some major disadvantages such as a lack of support for Forward Secrecy (which means others can decrypt your past messages with a stolen key) and being generally very hard to use by most people.