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Why is this any better than protonmail.ch?

pzduniak 11y ago
1) First of all, Lavaboom is fully opensource - ALL of our sourcecode is published on GitHub, so with enough efford you could download every piece of our setup and run it on your own server. 2) We support true end to end email encryption (it's not perfect, but a lot better than encrypting emails using some password in ProtonMail). Also you can manage all of your keys yourself if you wish, or keep your keychain encrypted on our server, just like in ProtonMail. 3) I'm definetely biased, but our stack is far better - ProtonMail uses PHP, which has a questionable reputation, meanwhile we use a static-typed language in the backend (Go). 4) Lavaboom is designed with hosted installations in mind - as soon as we sort out all the basic functionality of the "public version" (ie. hosted on lavaboom.com), we will start work on a self-hosted version which will make running it locally a lot easier - even on a Raspberry Pi :) 5) You can check all of our claims in the source code - we have nothing to hide! 5) Lavaboom to other providers emails use asymetric encryption. ProtonMail on the other hand... http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/58541/how-are-protonmail-keys-distributed http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/58541/how-are-pr... :) I might have repeated some points, but generally Lavaboom is a far more advanced product, which is in early stages on development. Right now I wouldn't recommend using Lavaboom for casual emailing, but I think that we will have all of ProtonMail's functionality during next two to three months and by the end of the year we should have a stable product with far more functionality for truly privacy conscious people.
- fareastcoast 11y ago
  ProtonMail also isn't encrypting with a password, it's fully OpenPGP compliant using full length RSA keys. Also, how do we know Lavaboom is going to be around and stable? ProtonMail is financed by the Swiss government and developed at CERN.

1) First of all, Lavaboom is fully opensource - ALL of our sourcecode is published on GitHub, so with enough efford you could download every piece of our setup and run it on your own server. 2) We support true end to end email encryption (it's not perfect, but a lot better than encrypting emails using some password in ProtonMail). Also you can manage all of your keys yourself if you wish, or keep your keychain encrypted on our server, just like in ProtonMail. 3) I'm definetely biased, but our stack is far better - ProtonMail uses PHP, which has a questionable reputation, meanwhile we use a static-typed language in the backend (Go). 4) Lavaboom is designed with hosted installations in mind - as soon as we sort out all the basic functionality of the "public version" (ie. hosted on lavaboom.com), we will start work on a self-hosted version which will make running it locally a lot easier - even on a Raspberry Pi :) 5) You can check all of our claims in the source code - we have nothing to hide! 5) Lavaboom to other providers emails use asymetric encryption. ProtonMail on the other hand... http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/58541/how-are-protonmail-keys-distributed http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/58541/how-are-pr... :) I might have repeated some points, but generally Lavaboom is a far more advanced product, which is in early stages on development. Right now I wouldn't recommend using Lavaboom for casual emailing, but I think that we will have all of ProtonMail's functionality during next two to three months and by the end of the year we should have a stable product with far more functionality for truly privacy conscious people.

fareastcoast 11y ago
ProtonMail also isn't encrypting with a password, it's fully OpenPGP compliant using full length RSA keys. Also, how do we know Lavaboom is going to be around and stable? ProtonMail is financed by the Swiss government and developed at CERN.