Confidante
Usable Encrypted Email
Confidante is a research project, which we have released for beta-testing and community evaluation. Though Confidante aims to provide the security properties described below, this beta version may contain bugs or other errors.
Please use Confidante only at your own risk.
Confidante is an end-to-end encrypted email client. Our goal in building Confidante was to provide strong security properties and make it easy to use. We tested the first version of Confidante with journalists and lawyers (read the research paper here), and now we’d like you to try it out and help us improve it!
Confidante is built on top of Gmail and Keybase. It uses your Gmail account to send and receive messages, and uses Keybase to store your private keys and look up public keys. Emails are automatically encrypted and decrypted in the Confidante client; neither Gmail nor Confidante’s servers can access the unencrypted versions of your emails.
Read MoreConfidante was created and is maintained by Ada Lerner, Eric Zeng, Mitali Palekar, and Franziska Roesner, as a research project of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington.
This project is funded in part by the National Science Foundation under Awards CNS-1463968 and CNS-1513575.
View the source code at our