CTemplar is shutting down

April 26, 2022

In this blog, I will let you know about the recent news that the encrypted invite-only united states email service will be shutting down it’s services for everyone on May 26, 2022. If you used this email service, I suggest you use ProtonMail a affordable, reliable, end to end encrypted email service that is open-source and has tor version of the email as well. They also so audits frequently for their email and vpn service. People stay not learning and using these “invite-only” email services. StartMail isn’t zero knowledge, they store your private key on their servers, and their user vault if they wanted still can read your emails. So it’s either ProtonMail or Tutanota. Tutanota Logs ip address when you trying to signup and doesn’t allow you to use tor or a vpn. You will have to wait for the unblock to try to signup again using your home ip address. So it’s up to you which threat model, you have to choose what email you want to use. And self-hosting your own isn’t encrypted either, and you need very good system administrator skills to make sure you won’t get yourself and your users emails databreached!

Sources:

https://ctemplar.com/ctemplar-is-shutting-down/ (Main Blog)

https://cyber-privacy.net/ctemplar-catastrophic-incident-with-complete-data-loss-july-2021/

https://www.emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?s=9eca24847dd794cf311796e9990e96a1&p=625616#post625616

https://news.knowledia.com/US/en/articles/ctemplar-is-shutting-down-ctemplar-66a35a931d14585139bda8f165db29a05dfcb498

https://www.reddit.com/r/ctemplar/comments/ucawcs/ctemplar_is_shutting_down/