This post is not an official statement from Whiteout Networks, but rather my own personal views on the market for consumer email privacy and some things I've learned about this space in recent years. Sadly, as announced on the official whiteout.io blog, we will be shutting down the service. Unfortunately after almost three years of work, we were not able to achieve relevant traction in the marketplace in order to justify ongoing operations to our users and our investors. …
- Whiteout Post Mortem

When we started whiteout.io in 2013, our goal was to provide end-to-end encrypted email that is easy to use and that runs on all devices. We had a lot of technical discussions on which platform to use for development, but in the end decided to make a bet on the web and also its rate of progression as a foundation for cross-platform app development. This is what the app looks like today: This decision was not obvious at the …
- Cross-platform with Chrome Apps - a Developer Diary

Reading the news on Heartbleed in the mainstream media these days got me thinking. It's hard enough to grasp the consequences as a technical person, but trying to explain to my girlfriend why she might want to change the passwords to all of her favorite sites made me think if things couldn't be different. There is no such thing as bug-free software and anyone writing a complex enough application will experience critical security bugs sooner or later. For most web …
- Heartbleed and JavaScript Crypto