SMX and email clients

We've recently launched a free email service that allows you to send messages securely from your browser. The messages are encrypted before they leave your computer, meaning that as they travel through the Internet and email servers, they are totally confidential. You can find out more from this blog post.

The way SMX works, is it sends the encrypted message as an HTML form to your email server. The problem that arises is that some email clients will not allow HTML forms to display, for security reasons. Email marketing firm CampaignMonitor explains it pretty well on their blog.

Some clients, like Outlook 2007, won't display the form, but allow you the option to View in browser if you trust the source. Here's how to do this with an SMX message:

Other clients, like Gmail, simply warn you of the danger, and let you go ahead if you think it's safe. Most clients should have some option for allowing you to view messages with forms, and as we find more we'll try and post them.

Send encrypted messages with SMX service

We'd like to announce the availability of a new service, in beta, that allows you to send encrypted messages to any email address, directly from your browser. The message is encrypted by your browser before it leaves your computer, and stays encrypted until it's loaded into the browser of the intended recipients.

While your message moves through the Internet, into mail systems, etc, it's secured with 256-bit AES encryption. Only when it reaches its destination is it decrypted.

https://www.completelyprivatefiles.com/services/smx/

The service is free to use, and based on a forthcoming API. So if you've got a confidential message to send, go ahead and give it a try!

If you have questions or feedback, you can email them to support AT completelyprivatefiles.com, or leave a comment below.

Update to Digitalbucket.net client - nearing release

We are nearing a full release of our encrypt before upload Windows client for Digitalbucket.net.

DigitalBucket.net is a web-based file management service, similar to Box.net and, now, Google Docs (with their recent 'upload any file' feature).

We've created a .NET client that connects to DigitalBucket.net and allows you to manage your files much like you do in My Documents, while keeping them absolutely private using encryption. Here's a quick rundown of features.

• Files are encrypted before they leave your computer. They never enter the cloud without being encrypted first.
  
• Just double-click any file to automatically download, decrypt, and edit it. Just like accessing files from My Documents.
  
• This is a fully integrated Windows application, so it gives you quite a bit more power than a web interface, such as letting you drap-and-drop files to encrypt and upload them to DigitalBucket.net.

This update

With this update, we're nearing a full release. Our current status is still beta, but that should be changing shortly. Here are the new features.

The login screen lets you connect to Digitalbucket.net and retrieve your documents. You can now cache your password if you're on a trusted computer. The client also works behind a proxy, and will prompt you for proxy settings if necessary.

We've added more right-click capabilities, to provide Digitalbucket.net management functions like tagging and publishing. You can tag files and folders, list tags for a file, and remove tags. You may also publish files, which gives you a link you can send to collaborators.

The Actions menu allows you to jump out to Digitalbucket.net in your browser, in case you need to access the full features of their web interface. It also lets you list all your tags and click to view items with a given tag.

To try out this release, click here.

There is nothing to install. Simply download dbnet.exe and run it. Requires .NET Framework 2.0 or newer. If you have any questions or feedback, you can comment here, or send them to support AT completelyprivatefiles.com.