IIT Guwahati researcher launches ‘privacy-first’ email provider startup

Email communication in in the present day’s world is commonly handled like an afterthought though on-line companies utterly rely upon it. Major email suppliers not solely mine consumer information but additionally use this information to show adverts or promote to 3rd events.

Sunit Kumar Nandi (26), who’s pursuing PhD in Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Guwahati, has launched an email provider startup named Letter. The platform presents email internet hosting which is encrypted per mailbox and organisation with ChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption utilizing the consumer’s password because the passphrase for the encryption keys making it unimaginable to learn conversations as an email companies operator.

“Email must be handled on a precedence since it’s the spine of all human communication on the web. The startup was created whereas holding ease of utilization, email deliverability, information possession and privateness safety because the prime focus, which most different operators typically take with no consideration,” says Nandi, who can also be a trainee instructor on the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Arunachal Pradesh.

The concept was first conceived when Nandi operated Techno FAQ Digital Media since its inception in 2012 and needed enterprise email options for his startup.

“While self-hosting Techno FAQ’s enterprise email, I learnt the right way to effectively provide email companies, guarantee state-of-the-art safety whereas not compromising on options, present nice efficiency and stellar deliverability of emails to the recipient’s inbox. Soon we had been internet hosting greater than 10,000 emails per day. Our group realised that privateness is turning into more and more necessary for folks and therefore, we determined to discover the untapped market,” Nandi informed
Education Times.

Nandi says that almost all email suppliers typically supply email information of their clients, whether or not they’re paying or not, and the much less common ones are poorly maintained to the purpose that e-mail deliverability and spam is a significant situation. Many suppliers don’t provide customary methods to entry mailboxes and pressure you to make use of their apps.

To overcome these persistent points, Letter presents the choice to import and export of your email information, so the consumer is really in charge of their information. Besides, it ensures connection encryption for mail sending and receiving with TLS 1.3 with 256-bit key power with both AES-256-GCM or ChaCha20-Poly1305. It provides an encryption layer over and above email encryption that not solely secures emails but additionally the infrastructure from cyberattacks.