Email encryption on Android and iOS becomes easy with the open source app Tutanota

Re:Email encryption on Android and iOS becomes easy with the... by klaustopher on Thursday May 28, 2015 @05:18AM (#9616894)

So, one can only send encrypted mails to other users of the platform?

http://tutanota.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/470724-...

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Re:Email encryption on Android and iOS becomes easy with the... by darklajid on Thursday May 28, 2015 @05:38AM (#9616956)

That link only talks about pgp/gpg, but yeah - their solution (haven't figured out the whole thing yet) seems to be "Send everything to our servers, others can get it from there using our app (or a web application)".

No gpg/pgp relation. No IMAP support¹. They do support SMTP if

a) the recipient is not on the same platform

b) you're sending an unencrypted mail (only possible to external users anyway)

If you send an encrypted mail to an external user, they basically just get a link or something. "View the real mail here"?

I believe the intentions are good, but that's trying to solve the problem by killing off most things I require for my mails, unfortunately.

①: http://tutanota.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/470761-...

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Re:Email encryption on Android and iOS becomes easy with the... by johnd03 on Thursday May 28, 2015 @05:36AM (#9616954)

No, it works with anybody: http://tutanota.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/470795-...

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Re:Email encryption on Android and iOS becomes easy with the... by hobarrera on Thursday May 28, 2015 @06:18AM (#9617078)

Yeah, it emails a link to the third party to use their website to read the email.

And you have to pre-share a password.

It basically takes a dump on every standard we already have.

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