What is the best email provider?

What's the best encrypted email provider?

• anyone used encrypted email before? what's the best service? should I just use ordinary email? I've got Googlemail but I think it might be a good idea to change ...show more

• Answer:

  Encrypted DAR? There aren't any legitimate public ones that I know of since Lavabit closed down. Encrypted connection? gmail is fine. If you're looking to hide data from a government, your only option is to get a provider in a different country since even if data is encrypted, a court order can and will force a provider to hand over any data on their servers that the order requires. The most secure way to send email is to use gpg or pgp to encrypt your email, that way only the recipient can read the email (assuming they keep their private key safe). edit: I didn't say it was. In fact, I didn't even mention America. But you'll find no country in the world where a court order (or less) won't get a data service provider to hand over your information.