How Foxcolab keeps your emails private
Your email is encrypted on your device, travels encrypted, is stored encrypted, and only you can unlock it. Here's exactly how that works — in plain language.
Your Device
Where encryption happens
Key Points
In Plain Language
When you write an email, it gets encrypted right here on your phone or computer. Your password is used to create encryption keys locally — these keys never travel to our servers. Once you close your browser tab, the keys are automatically erased from memory.
The simple version: how your email stays private
You write an email
You compose your email normally — just like Gmail or any other email app. No special steps required.
It's encrypted on your device
Before the email leaves your phone or computer, it's automatically locked with your personal encryption keys. The readable version never touches the internet.
It travels encrypted
The encrypted email travels across the internet to our servers. Even if someone intercepts it along the way, they only see scrambled, unreadable data.
It's stored encrypted
On our servers, your email remains locked. Our engineers, server administrators, and even potential hackers only see meaningless encrypted data.
Only you can unlock it
When you open your inbox, the email is downloaded to your device and unlocked using your personal keys. The readable version only ever exists on your screen.
Questions about how email encryption works
Is this the same as Gmail's encryption?
No. Gmail encrypts the connection (like a locked delivery truck), but Google holds the keys to read the contents. Foxcolab encrypts the email itself on your device (like putting your letter in a personal safe before the truck picks it up). We never have the keys.
What happens if Foxcolab's servers are hacked?
Attackers would only find scrambled, encrypted data. Without your personal password and encryption keys (which we never store), your emails remain completely unreadable — like stealing a vault full of locked safes without any combinations.
Do I need to be technical to use this?
Not at all. The encryption happens automatically in the background. You use Foxcolab exactly like any other email app — compose, send, receive. The privacy protection works without you doing anything extra.
Your email is personal.
It should stay that way.
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