Existing high-security communications software has traditionally focused on the military and government markets, and secret communications. This has placed strong requirements on specialized hardware, software and processes, and subsequently carried with it a high cost to communicate. With a modern realization that there is a large area of communications where data should be protected from the public, but adversaries are not foreign intelligence organizations, governments are opening up to the idea of communication tools that are faster and easier to use, and can run on off-the-shelf hardware
Crypho is a messaging and collaboration tool for organizations with high security requirements. Typical users are law enforcement, government and the financial industry. It is also used by human rights groups and journalists around the world. Crypho is a Software-as-a-Service. It runs on desktop and laptop computers as well as mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets
Ministry of Economic Affairs & Energy, Federal Office for Information Security, Bayer