Travis, I see your point on discovery in litigation cases. Certainly when using your e-mail client with the service, items you send would be discovered by your enterprise content management system as they are stores where you normally store your sent items. Items received may be downloaded to your inbox for discovery.

Travis and Marcin, if you would like to try it for yourself, I’d be happy to give you the opportunity. Please e-mail me at the address thorbjorn dot sundboe at protectoria dot com.

It does address the pain point of key management inherent to utilizing S/MIME, which is good.

The thing I don’t entirely like about this type of solution is it becomes another silo for information complicating discovery in litigation cases. Additionally if the email is sensitive in nature to begin with, who will trust a SaaS model for this feature?

Finally, at this point is it really email anymore? This is actually a good thing to some extent, as the purpose of tools like this is really communication/collaboration, which currently relies far too much on email.