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2. About CryptoMail.org

2.1 What is CryptoMail.org?

CryptoMail.org is a nonprofit organization that devotes its energy to promote the freedom of private communications to the general public. The organization was founded in Fall of 2000.

In October 2000, CryptoMail.org released the first version of the CryptoMail Email System in binary and source codes distribution to public under the GNU General Public License. The open source distribution allows many programmers to foresee any security flops in the email system. With the freedom of distribution, security fixes can be revised and released faster to the users.

2.2 What kind of security features does CryptoMail promote?

CryptoMail promotes security features that support security at the transport level and end-to-end message security. At the transport level, all communications between the user and the server are enforced by a way of an encrypted session. End-to-end message security means that a public/private key scheme is used in the message layer for all message exchange.

2.3 Why should security features be important to you?

The security at the transport level and end-to-end message security features are important to you, because those features discourage eavesdroppers at the network layer and prevent anyone from viewing the contents of the message. Thus, only intended recipient can read the contents of the message regardless the security of network and server.

2.4 Who maintains CryptoMail.org?

CryptoMail.org is maintained by one or more members in the CryptoMail.org. If you are interested to become a member, please contact Peter Leung (pleung@cryptomail.org).

CryptoMail Users FAQs, Version 0.10, 9/25/2000

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