14 DAY TRIAL // Sometimes when you send a private email to a friend, you're afraid that the message might be viewed by anybody else, no matter if we talk about hackers or people who like to read others' mails. Because of that, a team of developers designed Lockbin, a technology which allows you to send encrypted messages, protected with passwords, that can be viewed only by the users who know the secret word. 'How does it work?' is the first question that comes in my mind. Well, it seems like the entire service is based on a simple process.
First of all, you're required to visit the Lockbin website, type the message, write the secret word which was chosen by you and your contact and send the email. Once the mail arrives into your friend's inbox, Lockbin asks him to click on a link to read the message. After the website is loaded, the user has to write down the secret word in order to be able to view the email.
Because the message is actually stored on Lockbin's servers, many of you might be afraid that the emails can be accessed by hackers after you read them. Lockbin assures us that this isn't possible as the messages are not stored in the database.
"We save the encrypted version of your message, and we do not store your Secret Word. So we cannot read any of the messages in our database. Also, we destroy each message as soon as the recipient has read it," the developers explained on the main page of the service. "The nice thing about the Web is that you can browser code by viewing the HTML source. If you ask a programmer who knows JavaScript to view rhis code, he/she can verify that we do not send Secret Words to the server."
The good thing is that the service is available for free. The bad thing is that you can't obtain support for the product so you use it at your own risk.
