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Secure messaging is not rocket science. These days anyone can hire a freelancer to create a messaging app for less than $400. How secure that app will be depends on its design.

For example, start with a Webmail type solution hosted anywhere that is modified to encrypt the messages. Then create a mail app that logs into that service using UserID and password. The custom mail app downloads messages intended for the recipient and decrypts them for reading.

That is it basically, but it can be made more secure by using a different encryption key for each recipient. Other precautions can be used such as deleting messages after they are downloaded/read.

Kendo wrote: Wed Jan 14, 2026 1:11 am Secure messaging is not rocket science.

That is so true. But it is in demand and there are a lot people without criminal intent who merely want privacy, even if it is only from "big brother".

Are we interested in providing such a service?

Short answer is NO. The long answer - we are not interested in supporting criminal activity in any way.

The solutions that we do provide are actually more secure in every way. But they are for legitimate users who wish to protect intellectual property.

Any organisation with a corporate network can easily create their own secure messaging service, and if they want to open that network to select users outside of that network, we have the tools to do that.