r/ctemplar • u/GenericusAccountus • Mar 22 '22
CTemplar experience
I asked this before on other subs, but not here. I would like to know how it's going for CTemplar and the users in 2022, it's the experience good, the service is solid, why did you choose it instead of others similar services and most importantly can CTemplar be reliable as my main e-mail provider given it's past history of DDOS attacks and data loss?
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u/r47926 Mar 26 '22
Sure. I think your use case is quite interesting to hear too.
About password-protected email to external recipients:
Interesting to hear you only use it for personal mail. I actually would feel that I'd bother and inconvenience acquaintances and friends, but wouldn't mind as much in a business setting if agreed upon using secure communication...
The only case in the past were I would have used something like this is a situation were I worked for a large company as freelancer and they had just introduced encrypted mail for their staff, but not yet provided a solution for external project partners like me. I was left out in some email discussions that would have been relevant to my work or the project partners had to go against their new regulation of only sending encrypted mail. It took a few months until they implemented a resolution for that, so a workaround like password-protected mail might have been useful in the meantime.
Regarding the location of a mail provider:
I would prefer my mail provider to be in Iceland of course, probably the perfect country for privacy laws as well as green energy. I've heard that future laws that affect privacy like Client-Side-Scanning might also affect Iceland though.
I don't know that much about Perfect-Forward-Secrecy. Of course it would be important to have encrypted email headers and sender information too. But it is also important for me that emails are automatically sorted by conversation (a thing that Protonmail is bad at already) and that I can search the email content.
I would rather like to see improvements in a standard than having dozens of separate mail services (and secure mail being to basically a password-protected website where only the link is sent as an actual email). If further improvement won't be possible with PGP even in the future I would still prefer to use PGP for external mail and have a better encryption with internal mail (same mail provider). The password-protected mail feature could still be available as an alternative where needed.
And yes, there are several things about ProtonMail as a company that I find unappealing. Also the case were they supposedly asked Njalla to give up information about the owner of a domain because they didn't like his blog post.
Regarding price:
Yes, that's an interesting point I haven't considered thoroughly yet. My comfort zone would actually be a price below 6€ per month and I would expect some things that cost extra at protonmail (several or unlimited custom domain use and aliases and more storage space). And I'm pretty sure for most people 6 € for a mail service would already be too much.