'Our team met at CERN and early ProtonMail hackathons were held at the famous CERN Restaurant One,' says Yen.

The idea for the company was born last summer in a CERN cafeteria where CERN physicists and engineers regularly share ideas over lunch or coffee. So the team has no access to your messages, and as they cannot decrypt them, they cannot read them or share them with third parties. The end-to-end encryption means that when you send an email with ProtonMail, your data is already encrypted by the time it reaches the their servers. 'Access to user data is technically impossible because of the way we have implemented encryption.' 'The technology means that our email system does not allow us (or anyone else) to read user emails,' says Yen.

ProtonMail is a new service that provides encrypted email. Along with two of his CERN colleagues he recently co-founded a startup company called ProtonMail. Three young entrepreneurs inspired by their time at CERN have launched ProtonMail, a secure email service with a sophisticated encryption system to deter would-be spies.Ĭomputer scientist Andy Yen has been working at CERN since 2009 through his home institutes CalTech and Harvard University in the US.

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