The government-official SecuSmart-encrypted BlackBerry is available to everyone for $2770

Who knew that one day we'd be able to buy the kind of secure phone that only spies from movies and high government officials are privileged to? It's happening, folks - Germany's Secusmart GmbH is selling the most secure BlackBerry 10 phones out there for the affordable sum of $2770 (2000 euro), contract-free. The company is looking to offer the same security features that German chancellor Angela Merkel relies on to bankers, lawyers, politicians, and inevitably, drug barons posing as well-groomed businessmen. 

The SecuSuite for BB10 features a hardware-based security solution that integrates elliptic curve cryptography, certificate-based authentication of call participants, and 128 bit end-to-end AES encryption. Basically, it's a chip built into a special microSD card that provides additional secure memory to store confidential information in a protected environment.

It goes without saying that all the extra security measures only work the other end is running the same setup and a secure line is established. If you call a "regular" phone from your Merkel-worthy 'Berry, the communication remains open.

Secusmart's CEO, Hans-Cristoph Quelle, explains that voice encryption and secure communication in general is a "niche that is widening now." Indeed, lately we have been witnessing how mass-concerns about governmental spying on communications are presenting an opportunity for security companies to enter the huge smartphone market. Recently, different companies announced two security-oriented consumer Android smartphones that improve the OS's security from many angles. 

 bloomberg