Global-WAN differs in that: 1. its encryption is compliant and unbreakable forever 2. no metadata (who/where/when) is available to anyone 3. security not delegated to US open-source cryptography operating-systems, script engines, HTTP servers and VoIP servers (and all recurringly expose users to new critical security breaches, year after year). With Enigmabox, "your IP is your identity", which is the only thing needed to track people, the cryptography is taken from an open-source library made in an US university and Microsoft documented its design in 2006. Enigmabox relies on SIP phones from Grandstream, which describes itself as a "surveillance specialist" based in the USA: http://www.grandstream.com/index.php/products/ip-video-surveillance In contrast, Global-WAN lets you use regular phones (just a micro and a loudspeaker, which any ability to send data on the Internet). Unsurprisingly, almost everything is done wrong by Enigmabox - at least from a security point of view. The open-source project used by Enigmabox is named 'cjdns': https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns/blob/master/doc/security_specification.md 1. it uses a (vulnerable) US cryptographic library 2. it relies on (vulnerable) public-keys for key-exchange 3. it relies on backdoored runtimes (NodeJS, Python, Perl) and "off-the-shelves" Operating Systems The public-key crypto is weakened by using a 16-byte hash of the user IPv6 address (further identifying users and easing key-recovery). The 'password' method is presented as safe while it can't match the cryptographic entropy requirements. That's a lot of 'accidental' incoherences for people so concerned by the security of their users. Partners are hosted by Cloudflare (a commercial CDN) so someone is paying the bills (in addition to the costs of the R&D) for the pleasure of tracking Enigmabox users. Microsoft Research (not a privacy fan) documented the design used by Enigmabox... in 2006: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/75325/virtualring.pdf Finally, if you look at the prices (and purchase page) then its look & like is very similar to Global-WAN's page: http://enigmabox.net/en/order/ http://global-wan.ch/en/register.html But, unlike Global-WAN, they offer to get payments in Bitcoins (that Global-WAN presents as a trap aimed at tracking people - something recently confirmed by a university in Belgium). This makes you wonder who came first, and to do what: Enigmabox.net domain has been registered in June 2013 TrustLeap.com domain name was registered in Nov. 2007. It took us 7 years of R&D to make Global-WAN because we have rewritten everything in order to deliver real security. Clearly not the case of Enigmabox. -- Pierre Gauthier CEO and President http://twdi.ch/ http://global-wan.ch/ Paradiesli 17, CH-8842 Unteriberg SZ, Switzerland Tel +41 55 414-2093, Fax +41 55 414-2067