1. Global-WAN differs in that:
2.  
3.   1. its encryption is compliant and unbreakable forever
4.   2. no metadata (who/where/when) is available to anyone
5.   3. security not delegated to US open-source cryptography
6.      operating-systems, script engines, HTTP servers and
7.      VoIP servers (and all recurringly expose users to new
8.      critical security breaches, year after year).
9.  
10. With Enigmabox, "your IP is your identity", which is the
11. only thing needed to track people, the cryptography is
12. taken from an open-source library made in an US university
13. and Microsoft documented its design in 2006.
14.  
15. Enigmabox relies on SIP phones from Grandstream, which
16. describes itself as a "surveillance specialist" based in
17. the USA:
18.  
19. http://www.grandstream.com/index.php/products/ip-video-surveillance
20.  
21. In contrast, Global-WAN lets you use regular phones (just
22. a micro and a loudspeaker, which any ability to send data
23. on the Internet).
24.  
25. Unsurprisingly, almost everything is done wrong by
26. Enigmabox - at least from a security point of view.
27.  
28. The open-source project used by Enigmabox is named 'cjdns':
29.  
30. https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns/blob/master/doc/security_specification.md
31.  
32. 1. it uses a (vulnerable) US cryptographic library
33. 2. it relies on (vulnerable) public-keys for key-exchange
34. 3. it relies on backdoored runtimes (NodeJS, Python, Perl)
35.     and "off-the-shelves" Operating Systems
36.  
37. The public-key crypto is weakened by using a 16-byte hash
38. of the user IPv6 address (further identifying users and
39. easing key-recovery).
40.  
41. The 'password' method is presented as safe while it can't
42. match the cryptographic entropy requirements. That's a
43. lot of 'accidental' incoherences for people so concerned
44. by the security of their users.
45.  
46. Partners are hosted by Cloudflare (a commercial CDN) so
47. someone is paying the bills (in addition to the costs of
48. the R&D) for the pleasure of tracking Enigmabox users.
49.  
50. Microsoft Research (not a privacy fan) documented the
51. design used by Enigmabox... in 2006:
52. http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/75325/virtualring.pdf
53.  
54. Finally, if you look at the prices (and purchase page)
55. then its look & like is very similar to Global-WAN's
56. page:
57.  
58. http://enigmabox.net/en/order/
59. http://global-wan.ch/en/register.html
60.  
61. But, unlike Global-WAN, they offer to get payments in
62. Bitcoins (that Global-WAN presents as a trap aimed at
63. tracking people - something recently confirmed by a
64. university in Belgium).
65.  
66. This makes you wonder who came first, and to do what:
67.  
68. Enigmabox.net domain has been registered in June 2013
69. TrustLeap.com domain name was registered in Nov. 2007.
70.  
71. It took us 7 years of R&D to make Global-WAN because
72. we have rewritten everything in order to deliver real
73. security.
74.  
75. Clearly not the case of Enigmabox.
76. --
77.  
78. Pierre Gauthier
79. CEO and President
80.  
81. http://twdi.ch/
82. http://global-wan.ch/
83.  
84. Paradiesli 17, CH-8842 Unteriberg SZ, Switzerland
85. Tel +41 55 414-2093, Fax +41 55 414-2067