nymWARE: Disposible ID for the Digital Age.
You are most likely at this page because you want to find the
meaning of a weird nymWARE e-mail address (something
like
cap-5729-w42w-5667-6249-4644-296r-r542@nymware.fig.org).
Congratulations! You've found the answers you've been looking for, as well as a useful tool for proving your identity and doing business while protecting your privacy.
This random-looking identifier is not necessarily an actual e-mail address. It is what we in the computer security industry call a capability. You can use this nymWARE web site to create your own capabilities and associate each of them with activities such as signing documents (both online and disconnected), group memberships, dispensing funds, transferring files, forwarding e-mail, chat, SMS, telephone calls or shipments.
We provide management tools on this web site to make it easy for you to protect your privacy when dealing with the public. We enable (and encourage) you to create new capabilities for every situation where you would ordinarily give out your personal information. This may sound like putting a lot of trust in nymWARE itself, which is why it is crucial for you to read our privacy policy before you consider using our service. In short, you could look at us as an Internet service provider on steroids: we don't log more than basic statistics for billing purposes, and we make all logs accessible for you to analyze.
In order for a third party to use a capability, they have to make a request to nymWARE, and know what service to ask for. If that service isn't enabled on your capability, no problem. They won't be able to tell the difference between that and an invalid capability. Furthermore, since there are over 19 septillion possible capabilities (non-U.S. 19 quadrillion, that's 19 with 24 zeros following it), they probably won't guess yours before we get suspicious of all the traffic going to our servers.
Signing up for a management account is free. We don't need an e-mail address to validate you, nor will we subject you to banner advertising. The way we make our money is by charging service fees for creating capabilities and performing actual forwarding operations. Don't let that stop you from testing things out... you can try a free demonstration conversation with our favourite nymWARE agent: the e-mail parrot.