I like Virtru. A lot.

Perhaps because of Snowden, perhaps because of HIPAA, I’ve been thinking about secure e-mail a great deal. I’ve used Pretty Good Privacy and agree that it is the most secure solution as no third party holds to keys for decryption. You have someone’s public key. They alone have their private key. And that’s all that’s needed to encrypt and decrypt the message. The only problem is that the other party needs to be using PGP, too. Easy for a geek or nerd. Not so much for the average user. In Glenn Greenwald’s book No Place to Hide, he details how he ignored initial attempts at contact by Snowden because he, Greenwald, didn’t have the right software. Products like GPG Tools are terrific and make setup a breeze, but, again, it takes two to tango.
Enter VirTru with their ‘simple email privacy’ pledge. Virtru encrypts your e-mail before it leaves your device. What this means is that, during transit, if someone were to try to read what you sent it would look like gobbledigook and they would have no realistic way of forcing it to reveal what is written. In point of fact there’s more too it than that in that the message uses the open Trusted Data Format (TDF) to give control over things like whether the message can be forwarded, giving it a limited lifespan (think “this message will self destruct in 5 hour”), and having attachments.
The next step, then, is for the intended recipient of the encrypted e-mail to p...

Source: Waking Up Costs - May 30, 2014 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Clark Tags: Security Source Type: blogs