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I upvoted because I like the simplicity of the website.

But I have to say that I would have preferred if your code was open source. You state to use encryption and delete messages from your servers. Now I would like to have some sort of "proofs" and there is nothing more realiable than code.

My 2c.

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Thanks! We just got started, and I totally get your point. Right now we are trying to figure if there is a commercial aspect to this. Our plan is to open source the code eventually.

Note: We use AES for encoding our keys into redis, where we use redis timeouts to clear out the data. Minimal postfix logging to ensure that we don't keep track of emails.

Without access to login to their server and look at the running code anytime you like, you still don't have any "proofs" of the encryption/deletion -- regardless of whether the code is open source or not.

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