Volksverschlusselung Free encryption for everyone

While the authorities warn and protest against the growing use of encryption, the German government is following its own path: Volksverschlusselung or in Greek "encryption for all".

The Volksverschlüsselung service is also available as , and is designed to provide easy-to-use end-to-end encryption. The best part is that the service comes for free.Volksverschlusselung Volksverschlusselung Volksverschlusselung Volksverschlusselung Volksverschlusselung Volksverschlusselung

“Everyone should be using encryption,” director of proof Herfert είπε ZDNet. “Πρέπει να είναι τόσο απλή που είναι ο συνήθης τρόπος επικοινωνίας.”

His revelations Snowden was a call for action for Germany. The government has set up an encryption application on its agenda, and 2012, the German Ministry of the Interior, launched its De-Mail for its use by ordinary internet users. However, De-Mail managed to gather only a million e-mail users.

The problem with De-Mail is that it does not meet high security standards, and it has just begun to offer end-to-end encryption but still optional.

The solution Volksverschlusselung aims to solve many of these problems by offering end-to-end encryption to the general public.

Offers a high level of security using the two-key encryption method: users must have a private key and a public key. To send an email to someone, the sender should have the recipient's public key. The receiver decodes the message using its private key, which is known only to the receiver.

Such keys are available in Germany here and 18 years. However, the company providing them charges approximately 100 euros for the service. The Volksverschlüsselung service provides the keys for free.

The application distributed free of charge by their website generates high security keys of 2000 bits. "The NSA cannot break such keys," Michael Herfert, project manager, told ZDNet.

The application will automatically configure the user's e-mail programs. The first version, released this summer, will work with Microsoft Outlook, one of the most common e-mail programs used in Germany. Future versions will include more emails, including Mozilla Gmail and Yahoo's Thunderbird.

The next highest priority of developers is to make the project available on Android, so everyone can send encrypted ηλεκτρονικού ταχυδρομείου από τα their.

The "Encryption for everyone" application is not a closed application. Allows users to send encrypted emails even to people who do not use the app - or any other encryption service.
The second option is less secure, but uses the 'burn after reading' which will notify the recipient if the message has been tampered with.

When a user sends an encrypted e-mail to someone without encryption, the message will be stored on a zero-bin server, a server that can not know what data is stored. The recipient will then receive an e-mail with the URL and a next one with the password. So he can access the server, uses the password to retrieve and decrypt the message.

There is a chance that emails may be violated by a third party, however, the message can be read only once.

The Fraunhofer Institute, which set up the Volksverschlusselung application, also intends to make it available across national borders. The institute presented the "Volksverschlüsselung" at the conference Cebit in Hanover in March and is now looking for partners to expand the scope of the service.

"The first step will be in Germany, but we do not want to be alone," said Herfert.

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