Tutanota: GPLv3-licensed, end-to-end encrypted email

Re:Tutanota: GPLv3-licensed, end-to-end encrypted email by aswerty on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @06:34AM (#8693125)

I'd be wary about potential lock-in. The service seems to rely on everyone using their product. I'd like to see an end goal where they can communicate with other clients that support PGP or S/MIME.

I do like how their approach avoids ever having an email sent from Tutanota in plain text other than when either the sender or receiver views it. Of course the main issue is the receiver has to jump through hoops if they don't use Tutanota. I imagine most people will not enjoy the hoop jumping.

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Re:Tutanota: GPLv3-licensed, end-to-end encrypted email by jokoha on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @07:21AM (#8693303)

In their FAQ they say: "We are planning on making Tutanota interoperable with pgp"

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Re:Tutanota: GPLv3-licensed, end-to-end encrypted email by aswerty on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @09:00AM (#8693734)

Ah yes, I missed that (the FAQ is quite long). It'll be interesting to see how that works out.

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Re:Tutanota: GPLv3-licensed, end-to-end encrypted email by darklajid on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @07:35AM (#8693359)

And no way to access your mail via IMAP or .. any mail client, really. That's a no-go.

>Can I retrieve my Tutanota emails via IMAP to another email client?

>This is not possible as we could not guarantee end-to-end encryption for your data. [1]

1: https://tutanota.de/#!faq

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Re:Tutanota: GPLv3-licensed, end-to-end encrypted email by mike-cardwell on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @08:58AM (#8693723)

Well, it is possible. They'd need to write an IMAP proxy which can run on the end users machine which sits inbetween the client and the server and handles the encryption/decryption transparently.

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