Signup on ProtonMail, if you want an encrypted E-mail account!

An encrypted email service, ProtonMail is now accepting open registrations. You can create an account on ProtonMail, if you want to access a fully encrypted e-mail account. It is a Switzerland based email service and it has released its Beta version. It is a two years old project but now they are inviting the users for first time.

ProtonMail was first created by a group of security experts in May 2014, who met at MIT and CERN. This was a unique project, that’s why company collects 500K US Dollars as crowd funding. There were many other companies who were interested in this project and ProtonMail receives 2 Million US Dollars from different companies and organizations. Government of Switzerland is one of them.

Why is unique in ProtonMail?

Dr. Andy Yen, Co-founder of ProtonMail said,” ProtonMail have some special features, which proves that how it is different and more secure as compared to other email services.” This email service is unique because it provides a complete end to end encryption to every single bit of user’s data. It is difficult even for government officials to gain the access of user messages. It will protect user’s sensitive data from many other Spying agencies.

Dr. Andy Yen said,” In this digital world, encryption and security of data is a must. It protects our sensitive data not only from the hackers and activists, it is also a necessity for social and economic infrastructure of any country. This is the reason strong encryption techniques are must for the greater good.”

When it was first launched, after three days it receives 10,000 daily username requests. At that time it also experienced two Major Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks from the hackers. These attacks happened in year 2015.

The main motive of hackers behind these DDoS attacks was to spoil the infrastructure of ProtonMail. Alex Rosier, Head of Communications at ProtonMail said,” We think, these DDoS attacks make us stronger.”

According to Officials, “The DDoS Attacks performed by Bad Actors were a big experience for us. Now we have make our infrastructure very strong. We were able to defend our project against these DDoS with the help of our user community. No doubt we have experienced the largest DDoS attack of Europe but it brings a lot of lessons for us.”