Answers for private customers

The Knowledge Base for private customers is already largely up to date. A few individual articles are currently being revised and will be updated shortly. We thank you for your understanding and look forward to providing you with the latest information on using mailbox.

Please note: The Knowledge Base has changed slightly. Categories have been adjusted and any URLs stored in the old Knowledge Base are no longer valid.

Which PGP standards are supported

E-mail encryption with mailbox Guard is 100% compatible with the OpenPGP Standard.

The web interface of mailbox allows the sending, receiving, signing, and verification of PGP/MIME- and PGP/Inline-encrypted e-mails. Users of mailbox can thus communicate securely with everyone else who uses a PGP-compatible e-mail client or -plugin.

By default a freshly activated mailbox Guard creates a RSA 2048 bit key pair . As of December 2020 this is considered sufficiently secure for day-to-day use.
Those who have higher protection requirements, may want to use a ECC Curve25519 PGP pair. This has to be created manually.

Afterwards it has to be imported manually into the mailbox Guard.