CipherMail Email Encryption

CipherMail can be used to send and receive S/MIME signed and encrypted email

CipherMail Email Encryption

App stats

Rating: 3.16
(305)
Version: 3.3.1 (Last updated: 2024-10-07)
Creation date: 2011-07-11
Permissions
Identity: find accounts on the device, add or remove accounts
Contacts: find accounts on the device, read your contacts
Photos/Media/Files: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Storage: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Other:
  • view network connections
  • create accounts and set passwords
  • full network access
  • use accounts on the device

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App summary

CipherMail for Android is an Android application which can be used with your existing Android mail application to send and receive S/MIME digitally signed and encrypted email with an Android smartphone.

Features:

- S/MIME 3.1 (X.509, RFC 3280), email encryption and digital signing
- Can be used with the Android Gmail application
- Compatible with existing S/MIME clients (like Outlook, Thunderbird etc.)
- Message and attachments are encrypted
- HTML email support
- Certificates are automatically extracted
- CRLs supported (LDAP and HTTP)
- Certificate trust lists (CTLs) for black/white listing certificates
- LDAP servers can be searched for certificates
- Can generate self-signed certificates for a 'private-PKI'

Notes:

- CipherMail for Android does not provide functionality to retrieve email. An existing Android mail application, for example Gmail, K9 or the default Android email client, should be used to retrieve the encrypted attached smime.p7m message.
- Clear signed digitally signed message can only be verified by opening the message as an .eml file from a file. The complete message is required for validation. Existing mail clients however do not provide access to the complete message.
- If you are using O365, please make sure that SMTP is enabled.

Permissions:

The Contacts permission is required to lookup the recipients for the compose page. If the Contacts permission is not granted, the application will function correctly but recipients cannot be looked-up.

Documentation:

https://www.ciphermail.com/documentation/ciphermail-for-android/index.html

For support, visit our community forum:

https://community.ciphermail.com/

About CipherMail:

CipherMail, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, provides products for the protection of email. CipherMail Email Encryption Gateway is an open source centrally managed email server that encrypts and decrypts email at the gateway level.

Installation packages are available for Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, CentOS etc. A free ready to run Virtual Appliance for VMware and Hyper-V is available.

User reviews

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Pros
  • Successfully opens and decrypts .p7m attachments
  • Works well with Gmail and Comodo certificates
  • Helpful for reading encrypted emails on Android devices
  • Good functionality for viewing signed emails
Cons
  • Lacks in-app explanation and documentation
  • User interface needs improvement
  • Cannot set as default app for .p7m files
  • Issues with two-step authentication on Gmail
Most mentioned
  • Usability issues related to user interface and account deletion
  • Integration challenges with existing email clients
  • Need for better documentation or tutorials
  • Functionality primarily centered around .p7m files
User reviews
CAN I GIVE A MINUS TEN STARS? IT WAS COMPLETLY UNUSABLE, DUE TO ZERO "IN APP" EXPLAINATION, & NOW IT'S FILLED WITH INVASIVE PERMISSIONS! IT'S ONLY PRACTICAL USE WAS TO SHARE UNSEEN EMAILS TO IT, IN ORDER TO VIEW & USE ELSEWARE. I REINSTALLED THE OLD VERSION AFTER UNINSTALLING. THIS IS AN UNFORTUNATE WASTE OF WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN A USABLE PRIVACY APP FOR EVERYONE. IN MY OPINION, THIS DEVELOPER IS COMPROMISED BY GOVERNMENT. APP HAS BEEN UNUSABLE FOR YEARS DUE TO LAZY DEVELOPER, WHICH ALWAYS = .GOV
by Bob A, 2023-03-27

This only implements half of the solution. You can send encrypted emails all right, but in order to receive encrypted emails you need a separate client. If it integrates well with your client of choice, fine; otherwise, this is not what you are looking for. (07/14/22) Seven years after my first review, the situation has not changed. Removing one star: in seven years the developer could have implemented the complete solution.
by Luveh Keraph, 2022-07-14

Does what it says on the box. But the ui could use some work. Really missing an html based viewer of email, I can't control what people send me. Need to find a good way of automatically importing a bunch of public certificates that I've already acquired over time. Otherwise though this solves a pressing need
by Joshua Kordani, 2021-09-22
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