Private.sh: A "Cryptographically-Secured Private" Search-Engine
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There are plenty of "private" search-engines out there. Private.sh claims to go above and beyond by using cryptography. See their "How it Works" page, and "Private Search" from Gigablast's blog (Gigablast is the search-engine Private.sh gets it's results from).
If this is true, if those two pages I linked aren't just feeding us baloney: This could well be the most private search-engine there is!
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Everything using https is already encrypted. This just adds a useless secondary layer of encryption that significantly slows things down. The IP address removal could be a nice to have, but DuckDuckGo already doesn't take your location into consideration unless you specifically tell it to do so. Also there isn't much that anyone could actually do with your IP address anyway.
The option to change the IP address might be useful for someone without a vpn, but as soon as you click on a result you're back to your own IP again.
Its search results number in the hundreds for most searches (compared to hundreds of millions with something like google) and often go off topic before even reaching the load more button. Also there is no image search.
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@Funqus said in Private.sh: A "Cryptographically-Secured Private" Search-Engine:
Everything using https is already encrypted. This just adds a useless secondary layer of encryption that significantly slows things down.
Is it useless? As I understand it: The encryption is supposed to keep Private.sh itself from being able seeing your searches (weather it lives up to promises is another matter).
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It looks like it is essentially a proxy service.
From their "how it works" page they mention a different "Search Provider" that actually does the searching. But they don't mention who that search provider is, which makes me less likely to trust them.
If it's the service "Gigablast" that they mention, which they also own, then that means they own both the server doing the proxying and the server doing the searching which means they could theoretically tie searches back to you which defeats the whole point of using a proxy in the first place.
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@LonM said in Private.sh: A "Cryptographically-Secured Private" Search-Engine:
If it's the service "Gigablast" that they mention, which they also own
Kape Technologies owns both Gigablast and Private.sh?
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@Eggcorn They say so at the bottom of their page:
Private.sh is a joint venture between Imperial Family Companies and GigaBlast.
So they maybe don't own it outright, but it's unclear what their stake is and how truly independent it all is.
