Hushmail

Hushmail

Type of site	Webmail
Owner	Hush Communications Ltd
Created by	Cliff Baltzley
Website	Hushmail.com
Alexa rank	23,450 (May 2017[update])
Commercial	Yes
Registration	Required
Launched	1999
Current status	Online
Content license	Proprietary

Hushmail is an encrypted proprietary web-based email service offering PGP-encrypted e-mail and vanity domain service. Hushmail uses OpenPGP standards and the source is available for download. If public encryption keys are available to both recipient and sender (either both are Hushmail users or have uploaded PGP keys to the Hush keyserver), Hushmail can convey authenticated, encrypted messages in both directions. For recipients for whom no public key is available, Hushmail will allow a message to be encrypted by a password (with a password hint) and stored for pickup by the recipient, or the message can be sent in cleartext. In July, 2016, the company launched an iOS app that offers end-to-end encryption and full integration with the webmail settings.

Hushmail was founded by Cliff Baltzley in 1999 after he left Ultimate Privacy.

As of December 22, 2015^[update], Hushmail has a score of 1 out of 7 points on the Electronic Frontier Foundation's secure messaging scorecard. Hushmail has received a point for encryption during transit. It is missing points because communications are not encrypted with keys the provider doesn't have access to (i.e. the communications are not end-to-end encrypted), users can't verify contacts' identities, past messages are not secure if the encryption keys are stolen (i.e. the service does not provide forward secrecy), the code is not open to independent review (i.e. the code is not open-source), the security design is not properly documented, and there has not been a recent independent security audit.

There is one type of paid account, Hushmail Premium, which provides 10GB of storage, as well as IMAP and POP3 service. Hushmail offers a two-week free trial of this account.

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