Encryption for All Emails: Tutanota Uses DANE on Top of SSL and PFS for Maximum Security
Tutanota is the most secure email service you can get: On top of its automatic end-to-end encryption, it uses DNSSEC, DANE, DMARC, DKIM, PFS & STARTTLS to secure your connection to Tutanota to the maximum. Today, we have updated our SSL certificates.
Why Any Backdoor Would Be a Threat to Online Security.
In regular intervals, Politicians demand that companies add backdoors to their end-to-end encrypted cloud services to enable law enforcements to easier persecute criminals. This demand ignores that any backdoor to encryption poses a severe threat to online security in general. This post explains why a backdoor is - and will always be - a stupid idea.
Building Trust Unlocks Great Business Potential. But Data Keeps Being Breached and Misused.
Consumer trust in companies decreases at an ever faster pace. Caused by data breach scandals as well as privacy-intrusive misuse of data by the companies themselves, consumers increasingly look for trustworthy alternatives. Instead of gambling with their users' trust, companies should respect their users' rights to privacy by encrypting the data end-to-end.
The Tutanota iOS App Has just Received Its Biggest Update Ever!
We're excited to let you know that we have just published a brand-new version of the iOS app. The new app is faster, supports 2FA, auto-sync and full text search. We're very happy that we now have a new web client, a new Android app, and a new iOS app. Now we're adding some last improvements along with a couple of bug fixes, and, finally, the new version of Tutanota will be ready to leave its beta status behind!
Tutanota Becomes the Best Open Source Email Service with an App on F-Droid.
With an open source email client as well as open source iOS and Android apps, Tutanota is the recommended secure and open source email service that enables everybody to stop using Google. Security experts can easily check that the open sourced code is doing what we promise: Protecting your emails and contacts with automatic encryption.
Encrypted Emails Are on the Rise: 58% of Tutanota's Emails Are End-to-End Encrypted
Tutanota is the secure email service that comes with automatic end-to-end encryption. When we started building Tutanota, we always believed that sending an end-to-end encrypted email needs to be as easy as sending a normal email. The numbers prove us right: 58% of all emails sent from Tutanota are end-to-end encrypted.
Tutanota Now Supports Several Cryptocurrencies for Donations
We are very happy to announce that we have started integrating cryptocurrency support to Tutanota! In a first step, you can now donate to Tutanota with Bitcoin, Ether, Bitcoin Cash and Monero. We will now test payment processing and how easily we can automate the processing of crypto payments. Then we will add an option to also pay for Tutanota with cryptocurrencies.
Public Beta of the New Tutanota Android App Has Started. Get the Brand-New App Now!
We are excited to let you know that the Tutanota Android app is now ready to join the beta of our new mail client! Our new mail client client already comes with a lot of improvements: 2FA support, auto-sync as well as significantly better speed and design. Right now we are adding all these improvements to the Tutanota Android app. Originally, we've planned to release the new app once it supports all new features. However, we ourselves prefer using the beta app so much compared to the old version that we did not want to make you wait one day longer.
Premium Makes Tutanota Even Better. Find out What Tutanota Can Do for You.
Tutanota is a free, secure email service that puts its users' privacy at the center. Three years ago, we have published the first Premium version of Tutanota that enabled people to use Tutanota with their own domain. The number of people upgrading was simply amazing, and still is. Back then, lots of users simply upgraded to support our privacy-focused, ad-free, secure email service. While this hasn't changed, Premium users now also get a lot of extra features. Read here why you should join them!
Transparency Report & Warrant Canary for the Secure Mail Service Tutanota
This is Tutanota's transparency report and warrant canary information. While in Germany a gag order is legally not possible, we want to give you peace of mind by publishing a warrant canary. The transparency report is updated every six months. We only release individual mailboxes if we receive a valid German court order. All email content (subject, body, attachments) is end-to-end encrypted, and we cannot decrypt any of this data.
We Are Very Happy to Welcome Ivan to Our Team. Will You Join Next?
Please welcome with us our new team member: Ivan. Ivan has used Tutanota for more than a year already when he received one of our mails that inform all our users about important updates to Tutanota. In this mail, we also asked for passionate privacy advocates to join our development team. Without thinking twice, Ivan applied. Now he is already working on building the new Android app. And with his passion and development skills combined, it won't take long until the new app is going to be released!
Tutanota and Tor: Security and Privacy Go Hand in Hand
Everybody has the right to whisper. We want that everybody has the right to whisper online as well. That's why your encrypted Tutanota mailbox can also be accessed via the Tor browser - without the need for personally identifiable information such as a phone number.
Supporting the European ePrivacy Regulation
The EU is currently working on updating the legal framework that governs the privacy of electronic communications with the aim of reinforcing trust and security in the Digital Single Market. The European Parliament, in its report adopted in October last year, included much-needed provisions supporting the use of end-to-end encryption and a clear stance against backdoors. Meanwhile, Member States in the Council have not managed to find a compromise so far.
Encrypt It All: How Tutanota Secures Your Private Key and Your Data at All Times
Tutanota combines maximum security with ease-of-use: We, the Tutanota developers, have built an email service that automatically encrypts all emails by default. Key generation, key handling, key exchange – all of this happens automatically in the background, yet, the private key is only accessible by the user. This post explains how the Tutanota developers have achieved this.
Anonymous Emails: How Tutanota Keeps Your Emails Secure and Anonymous.
Tutanota is an anonymous email service without compromises: No phone number required, no logging, no tracking, and all data is end-to-end encrypted. Tutanota is built by a team of privacy-enthusiastic developers, committed to protecting your right to privacy. We aim to bring the most secure and anonymous email service to you by focusing on automatic encryption and privacy-by-design.
GDPR Compliant Email Service: Tutanota Encrypts Entire Mailbox Automatically.
The European GDPR requires companies to protect all personal data they handle. Email as the prime communication tool in every business oftentimes handles a lot of personal information. Learn here how the encrypted email service Tutanota can help you to easily achieve GDPR compliance for all your business emails.
The EFAIL Hype Draws a Lot of Attention to Known Bugs. This Will Enhance Everybody's Security.
EFAIL describes potential attack vectors on PGP and S/MIME encrypted emails exploitable in several mail clients. While some argue that the publication of EFAIL and the recommendation by EFF to disable PGP for now are an exaggeration, raising this issue in such a dramatic way will actually help to improve PGP and S/MIME security in the long-run. Some of the attack vectors have been known for decades, yet, several mail clients are not patched to date. Because of the 'hype' created by the authors of EFAIL and by the EFF, this will finally change.
Stop ISPs Spying on You. Why Everyone Should Use Tor or a VPN.
The recent Facebook scandal has alarmed many because of its clear privacy intrusion. However, only a few are concerned about the constant privacy intrusion by Internet Service Providers (ISPs). ISPs probably know more about you than you yourself. They can monitor and log every website you ever visited and sell this data to advertisers. Stop the privacy intrusion by ISPs such as Comcast and Verizon. Try a VPN such as Private Internet Access or Tor when going online.
New Client Now Comes with Fast & Easy Upgrade Feature
We are happy to announce that we have updated our new beta client. You are now able to upgrade to all our paid plans with the new mail client. We have also much improved the upgrading process to make it faster and easier and to accept PayPal payments with security codes.
CLOUD Act: Attack on Data Protection & Privacy Rights
The CLOUD Act - Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act - has recently been enacted into US federal law. It allows US authorities to request data from American companies whether the data is stored in the US or abroad. While US cloud services such as Google and Facebook welcome this law, it is heavily criticized by data protection experts and privacy rights activists.
Surveillance Database of Journalists to Be Compiled in the USA. Where Is the Outcry?
Donald Trump is not known for being a friend of the media. Now he seems to be taking up new methods to control unfavorable journalists. The Department of Homeland Security wants to create a database of journalists and bloggers from around the world that can be filtered by location, content and sentiment. While the DHS claims this is standard PR practice, the alarm bells must ring. After all, surveillance is what upcoming autocrats commonly use to undermine democracy.
Tutanota in Your Language? Help Us Bring Privacy to the World!
Tutanota is an open source webmail client with open source Android and iOS apps. We want everybody to be able to use Tutanota in the easiest way. That's why we have invited passionate Tutanota users to volunteer as translators. We are very proud that our team of volunteers has already translated Tutanota into more than 30 languages. We are continuously improving all language existing versions as well as adding new languages whenever they are completed.
Four Years of Easily Encrypted Emails: Together We Are Stopping Mass Surveillance.
We are celebrating four years of our secure mail client Tutanota! Four years ago, today, we have published the first beta version of Tutanota, the first automatically encrypted mailbox. Since then we have vastly improved Tutanota's performance and design, added lots of features, and built a strong and vibrant community, all of which ensure Tutanota's lasting success.
Reviews of Secure Mail Service Tutanota
Secure mail service Tutanota is best known for focusing on privacy and security. A team of German engineers launched this fully encrypted mail service in March 2014 to enable everyone around the world to easily communicate confidentially. With its built-in encryption of the entire mailbox and address book, Tutanota poses a true privacy-friendly alternative to mainstream services such as Gmail and Yahoo.
Comcast Temporarily Blocks Tutanota. This Shows Why We Have to Fight for Net Neutrality.
Comcast Internet users were unable to access their Tutanota mailbox beginning of March due to Comcast blocking access to Tutanota for around 18 hours. This outage of the Tutanota website demonstrates how devastating the end of net neutrality could be for Internet users and start-ups alike.
Committed to Open Source - Tutanota App Will Be Coming to F-Droid
Tutanota is the secure mail service that focuses on security and privacy. From its early days, Tutanota has been published as open source, licensed under GPLv3. Only with open source software third parties can verify that we remain true to our goal: Protecting the privacy of our users by offering the most secure email service. Now we plan to release the Tutanota app on F-Droid.
Release Notes 3.26: New Tutanota Beta Client Now With Whitelabel Option
We are excited to let you know that we have updated our new beta client. With this release, we are adding important features to the Premium version of Tutanota: You can now whitelabel Tutanota to login via your own website. You can also add contact forms to your website that send contact requests end-to-end encrypted directly to your Tutanota mailbox.
We Are Very Happy to Welcome Anton to Our Team
Please welcome with us our newest team member: Anton. He has recently joined our team, and he has already proven to be the perfect addition. As our user base is growing constantly, so is our team! We are now six enthusiastic freedom fighters that work towards one shared goal: Protecting our right to privacy online.
How the Microsoft Email Case Could Affect Us All: American Prosecutors Want Your Data, even if Stored Outside the US.
This summer the US Supreme Court will decide whether US prosecutors can get hold of data stored all over the world. Experts warn that this will jeopardize privacy rights and open the door for similar privacy intrusions from other countries such as China and Russia.
Tutanota Is the First to Enable Search on Encrypted Data
Since the start of our fully encrypted mailbox searching encrypted data has been one of the biggest challenges. We are very happy to announce that we as the first encrypted application worldwide have developed secure full-text search for encrypted data. This feature enables everyone to easily and securely search encrypted emails and encrypted contacts locally on their client.
The Development of Your Secure Mail Service Tutanota Continues: Feature List
Tutanota is an innovative end-to-end encrypted email service that takes your privacy seriously. With the built-in encryption only you can access your data. Tutanota is your fully secure email service that also comes with Android & iOS apps. We continuously improve Tutanota so stay tuned for our upcoming features!
Millions of People Are Taking an Interest in Cryptography
Cryptography used to be the exclusive concern of techies, geeks, and the CIA. Today, however, it seems that everybody wants to be a crypto-expert. And the recent surge in BitCoin has further accelerated people’s interest in cryptography. Sam Bocetta shares details on why cryptography matters and how it works.
Happy Birthday Tutanota: Here's to 6 Years of Secure Mail!
Six years ago we have started to create the most secure email service. Today we are not only happy that we ventured on this journey, but we are proud of what we have achieved! With tremendous support from our community we have built a fully encrypted email client that is fast, beautiful and available in over 30 languages. So, today we are celebrating our success, and tomorrow we'll keep on developing!
Bug Fix Release for Downloading Attachments
Today we have released the bug fix release 2.15.1 for our standard mail client. We have fixed an issue with downloading attachments in the Internet Explorer 11. Mobile apps are not affected so the release is only for the web client.
How to Get Started with Tor
Tor is an online anonymity network that anyone with an internet connection can use. It's been around a long time and is often used by people who need to stay anonymous such as political activists and whistleblowers. Comparitech's editor and privacy advocate Paul Bischoff gives insights on the world's most famous anonymity software. Read on to find out more about what Tor is and how to use it.
How to Leave Google Behind: Quick Guide to Take Back Your Privacy Online.
For many the Internet is Google: Search, email, videos - Google is the major player in all these fields. But Google uses all data it gathers across its services to post targeted ads, and to massively profit from the data many share so freely with the Internet giant. The time has come to stop this unlimited data mining and to take back our right to privacy! Here's a quick guide as to how you can use the Internet without sharing all your data with Google.
Release Notes 2.24.11: New Tutanota Beta Client Now With Contact Import
We are excited to let you know that we have updated our new beta client. Two weeks ago we have released this new mail client to all our users, and your feedback was simply amazing! We thank you for that and, of course, also for your bug reports. Thanks to your feedback we have fixed lots of bugs as well as added new features. Your secure mail client now supports contact import, multi-select in contact list and printing of emails.
27 Years Ago Stasi Surveillance Ended. Now Mass Surveillance Online Must Stop.
On October 3rd 1990 German re-unification enabled millions of people in the former German Democratic Republic to make use of freedom of speech and their right to privacy. 27 years later, in celebration of this great victory against state surveillance, we at Tutanota are releasing a completely rebuild encrypted mail client that enables millions of people around the world to exchange their thoughts and ideas freely and privately online.
Tutanota Is Light & Snappy: Meet Mike Finch, the Designer of the New Mail Client
Mike Finch is an experienced designer with a passion for privacy and security. His aim is to make privacy-first services easy-to-use and accessible to every web user. One year ago, Mike has offered to redesign our secure mail client and we couldn't be happier with the result! In this interview Mike explains why he supports privacy-focused projects such as Tutanota and why it is more important than ever to spread privacy.
Meet the Secure Mail Client of the Future: We Invite You All to Join Tutanota's Public Beta
On October 3rd 1990 German re-unification enabled millions of people in the former German Democratic Republic to make use of freedom of speech and their right to privacy. 27 years later, in celebration of this great victory against state surveillance, we are releasing our brand-new Tutanota mail client! We invite everybody to join this exciting journey of making encrypted emails not only easy and secure, but also enjoyable.
Internet Privacy: How to Keep Your Internet History Private
The eyes of internet users around the world have been focused on the United States as internet privacy and net neutrality protections are being taken down. Even if you don’t live in the States, it’s likely that some portion of your internet traffic flows through American pipes. Beyond that, what happens in US regulation - especially online and in the tech industry - becomes mirrored in other countries.
Secure Mail Client Updated: Tutanota Beta Adds TOTP and U2F
We are happy to announce that TOTP has just been added as an option for two-factor authentication to the beta client of your secure mail service Tutanota! This release comes shortly after the option of using two-factor authentication (2FA) with a security device (U2F). As our developers are heading for the public beta release of our brand-new client this month, we are noticeably speeding up our development.
Ropemaker Exploit Allows Attackers to Modify Mails - Tutanota Is Not Affected
Security professionals warn of a new mail exploit that allows an attacker to easily change the content of an email even after it has arrived at a mailbox. This exploit only affects desktop clients such as Apple Mail, Microsoft Outlook, and Mozilla Thunderbird. Tutanota as a webmail client with its own mobile apps is not affected.
Special Offer for Non-Profit Organizations: Secure Your Emails for Free
We are happy to announce that non-profit organizations (NPOs) can get Tutanota Premium free of charge. At Tutanota we believe that we as societies can do better when it comes to human rights. We are true believers working hard to change the world for the better. NPOs that dedicate their time and money towards changing our world into a better place deserve all the support they can get. Supporting them is the most obvious step for us to take.
Update of Your Secure Mail Client: Tutanota Beta Adds 2FA-Support
Your secure mail service Tutanota has just become more secure! We are happy to announce that we have enabled two-factor-authentication (2FA) for our encrypted Tutanota beta client. We are now working hard on making the client ready for the public beta release in September.
Data Leaks Rise in Numbers - Yet Leaks Can Easily Be Prevented with Encryption
Data leaks are becoming more and more common - small leaks don't even make it into the news anymore. Recently, there has been an enormous data leak, though, that could have been easily prevented with encryption: A US marketing firm has stored data of 198 million US voters for an unknown period of time easily accessible in the cloud.
The Fight for Net Neutrality Is a Fight for Freedom of Speech and Democracy
The Internet as we know it is a magnificent space where everyone has the right to share their thoughts freely. However, people living in dictatorships experience a much different Internet: Censorship, blocking of major sites or social media platforms are normal to them. If we allow Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to decide what content they want to show us and what content they want to block, this is exactly how we can expect our future Internet to look like. To protect freedom of speech and democracy, we must fight for net neutrality now.
Release Notes 2.14.5: Bugfix for Some Browsers
This release is a bug fix release. After our last update the Tutanota emails were not viewed correctly in Chrome browsers on mobile. This has now been fixed.
Private Beta Update: Get Excited for the Brand-New Dark Theme of Your Secure Mailbox!
We are excited to announce that we have added a dark theme to our new Tutanota client. At the moment the new client is still in private beta. But as we have fixed a lot of bugs now, this release is a big step towards the public beta release later this year.
Fighting for Privacy: How Encryption & Data Protection Laws Protect Your Mail.
Everybody knows that data protection laws in Germany are very strict, and that German companies are compelled to protect their users' data by law. Nevertheless, also in Germany politicians call for access to users' data to prevent crimes such as terror attacks. This is heavily debated in the media because of Germany's history with state surveillance (e.g. the Stasi in former East Germany). While this discussion is much needed to stop the authorities from getting excessive access to citizens' data, it also makes the situation confusing. This post sheds some light into the current situation of data protection laws in Germany.
Politicians, Stop Exploiting Terror for Surveillance. It Won't Make Us More Secure.
Terror attacks are tragic. Terror attacks make each one of us long for security. That's why politicians repeatedly call for more surveillance after every terror attack. Most famously Theresa May, who wants to rip up human rights laws to fight terrorism. However, compelling data shows that more surveillance won't help at all: Every identified Islamist terrorist in Europe who killed innocent people with a terror attack since 2014 was already known to the authorities prior to the attack.
Tutanota Joins Open Invention Network to Voice Commitment to Open Source
Tutanota, the world's first end-to-end encrypted mail service, has recently joined the Open Invention Network. Tutanota joins companies such as Google, IBM, NEC, Red Hat and SUSE, who are all part of OIN. OIN enables open source developers to freely develop and share their work while being protected from patent suits. All members of OIN have joined to voice their support for the principle of non-aggression. We at Tutanota are happy to be part of OIN and to do our share to support and strengthen the open source community.
365 Days Until GDPR: Secure Services Underline How Encryption Helps Businesses Reach Compliance
With just one year to go before the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into force, privacy-focused online services have come together to highlight the crucial role of encryption in achieving GDPR compliance. As a key technology to protect employee and customer data, encryption helps organizations reduce GDPR compliance costs and avoid heavy fines.
How to Prevent Phishing Attacks: Never Share Your Password.
Phishing is one of the most common attacks on the Internet, but it is also very easy not to fall for phishing. Here are some easy steps how to prevent a phishing attack from being successful. Most importantly: Never share your password.
WannaCry Ransomware - Why NSA and Microsoft Are to Blame.
The WannaCry ransomware attack that affected more than 200.000 computers was also the fault of the NSA and Microsoft. While Microsoft is now offering a patch, the lesson we have to learn from this attack is that we need a different approach so secure the Internet: The open source approach.
Encryption solves a lot of challenges for Small and Medium-Sized Companies
The encrypted mail service Tutanota helps over two million users to share their mails securely - also with attachments. However, when the attachments get too large people and businesses need encrypted cloud storage as well. We've spoken to Istvan Lam, CEO of Tresorit, about our shared goal to make end-to-end encryption a tool to be used by the masses.
Email Bomb Hit Tutanota's Contact Mail Address with 500.000 Newsletters
Two weeks ago a massive email bomb has been executed against Tutanota's main contact mailbox hello@tutao.de, which sent 500.000 newletters to this mailbox rendering it useless. The attacker has automatically signed up Tutanota's main mail address to thousands of online newsletters so that confirmation request mails hit the hello-mailbox continuously. Until we implemented a protection method around half a million unwanted mails were received.
Hard Drive Issue Is Now Fixed.
On Friday we had to replace one broken hard drive. During this process mails that had already been deleted had been accidentally restored. This affected around 10.000 Tutanota users (around 0.5%), who were not able to access all mailbox folders (ie. inbox or drafts). We fixed this problem Saturday evening.
The Wolf That Guards the Door Or Why Privacy Matters
On April 3, 2017, President Trump signed a bill which was designed to cut out all of the FCCs protective laws for consumer internet use in the US. This action effectively opened the floodgates for advertisers and increased the reach of government procurement on data generated by private citizens.
American ISPs Can Sell Users' Internet History. Let's Buy Politicians Browsing History!
Only recently the American Senate passed S.J.Res 34, an anti-privacy law that allows American ISPs to sell their customers' internet history to the highest bidder. Now activism online against the bill is spreading like fire, one activist even started a fundraising campaign to buy politicians' browsing history. We think this idea is simply amazing and judging from a German example it might actually work.
Notice of Website Downtime, Your Encrypted Mailbox Will Still Be Online
Our website will be down for server maintenance for about eight hours starting at 10:30 PM (CEST) April 4th. Your encrypted mailbox will still be accessible via app.tutanota.com or via our free and open source Android and iOS apps.
Release Notes 3.0 Private Beta: Testing of Our Completely New Tutanota Client Has Started
We are excited to release Tutanota Three in private beta. This is our biggest update to Tutanota since we have started building our secure mail client with automatic encryption five years ago. We have re-build Tutanota from scratch to give it a fresh design, to improve performance and to make it fit for the future. Lots of Tutanota users have already signed up for the private beta and will now start testing our brand new client. The public beta will follow in the coming months, so stay tuned!
2017 Will Be Great: It Is the Start of the Privacy-Era.
Since January 2017 secure mail service Tutanota is seeing an exponential growth in users. This trend has started in the second half of 2016, but has really taken off recently. Simultaneous to this development privacy-focused search engines like Qwant.com and duckduckgo.com are also growing quickly. The reasons - as our users tell us - are not only to be found in politics, but politics do play a big part.
Gmail's End-to-End Encryption Project Is Dead. Start Using End-to-End Encryption!
Google has pulled out of E2EMail last week, making it very unlikely that automatic end-to-end encryption will ever be available to millions of Gmail users. It seems as if for Google promising real encryption was only a marketing move after the Snowden revelations in 2013.
Cloudbleed Revealed Personal Information - And: What Is the Real Danger Behind a Service Like Cloudflare?
Cloudflare published a serious bug in its software that revealed user passwords, authentication tokens and cookies of millions of websites. Tutanota was not affected as your secure mailbox does not use Cloudflare or any similar service. But if you are using your Tutanota password for any other service (which you shouldn't!), change it right away. It may be accessible to whoever is looking for it somewhere on the internet.
Fake News: After Recent Encryption Utilization NSA Turns Towards Brain Observation.
Fake news alert: This post is of course not true and was meant as a joke. We at Tutanota respect and value everybody's privacy and would never reveal any personal data about any user. We apologize for any misunderstanding and will refrain from parody in the future.
Fake News: After Recent Scandal Trump Family Turns Towards Encryption.
Fake news alert: This post is of course not true and was meant as a joke. We at Tutanota respect and value everybody's privacy and would never reveal any personal data about any user. We apologize for any misunderstanding and will refrain from parody in the future.
A Very Terrifying Idea: Only the NSA Can Save Us.
This week well-known German journalist Christian Stöcker posted a commentary with a rather terrifying thesis: Only the bad relations between Trump and the NSA are currently stopping him from abusing the NSA to use this surveillance apparatus for anti-democratic purposes. The US authorities need to prevent him from using their tools to oppress the press and political opponents.
You Think You Have Nothing to Hide? Think Again.
Today is Data Privacy Day. Many people are still not aware of the importance of privacy and how it is being invaded on a day-to-day basis. Yet the invasion of our privacy affects each and every one of us, and it is crucial to spread the word about it.
Release Notes 2.14.4: app.tutanota.com
With this release we publish the Tutanota web client on https://app.tutanota.com while https://app.tutanota.de is still accessible.
Trump Is the New President. But No Matter Who Rules, You Should Always Protect Your Privacy.
Eight years ago many people hoped in vain that Obama would reduce NSA surveillance. Now many fear that US surveillance will become even worse under Trump's rule. But faith and fear are wrong guides when it comes to protecting your privacy: Precaution is what we all need.
Release Notes 2.14.0: Storage Capacity Check
A couple of months ago we introduced the option to buy additional storage when you need more than the 1 GB that every account gets for free. While we trusted people would be honest and upgrade voluntarily, we had to learn otherwise. With this update we enforce the storage capacity limit for every mailbox.
Privacy Win: Once More EU Court Rejects Data Retention
The highest court in Europe ruled this week that "general and indiscriminate" data retention directives are against European Union law. This is a great victory for our right to privacy. It calls into question many recent surveillance laws passed by European Union member states such as the United Kingdom, Sweden and Germany.
Release Notes 2.13.4: Spam Improvement and Changes in Support
With this update we have significantly improved spam handling by adding DKIM and DMARC to Tutanota. In addition we are changing our support system. Up to now we have answered all support requests. However, with well over one million users, we need to put more time into development than answering innumberable emails every day.
Happy Birthday Tutanota: We Are Celebrating 5 Years of Secure Mail!
Five years ago we have started our journey to create the most secure email service. Today we see that a growing number of people around the world are turning to encrypted email because they understand the value of their data. This gives us reason to celebrate because only with strong end-to-end encryption we can protect our right to privacy!
Distrust in Companies Rises as Data Breaches Become Public More Often
Every second person already distrusts companies in using their personal data correctly. Interviews done by Boston Consulting in Europe and in the USA show that this figure could grow immensely as more and more data breaches become public.
Politicians Reacted Shocked When Being Monitored, Called for Laws Against Surveillance.
In Germany journalists uncovered that the browser add-on Web of Trust (WOT) saves users' surf history to sell this data. While the company claims that the data being sold is anonymized, the journalists were able to identify several users, among those journalists, judges, policemen and politicians of the German government.
Hidden Features of Your Secure Mail Tutanota.
Automatic encryption is one thing that is at the heart of Tutanota, but your secure email can do much more. In the last two years we have implemented several features that most users don't know about. Read on and find out what your encrypted mailbox can do for you!
We at Tutanota Would Never Accept a Directive Like the One Presented to Yahoo.
It is still unbelievable to us that Yahoo gave access to all their email accounts to US authorities. This recent publication of years and years of online surveillance shows again how easy it is to monitor everybody - when the data is not being encrypted. This is why Tutanota encrypts all mailboxes by default.
Release Notes 2.12.2: Bug fix
Some users were experiencing a bug that prevented logging in as external recipient. So here is a small bug fix release.
Today Is the Day We Got Rid of the Surveillance State GDR.
Today is German Unity Day: On October 3rd in 1990, Germany became one. At the same time it became a truly democratic country. The oppressive system of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was ended and with it an immense surveillance apparatus disappeared. This is an extremely joyful moment to all Germans, yet, it also has to remind us that we can't take the freedoms we currently enjoy for granted.
Release Notes 2.12: Take over your Tutanota mail address
Our new release contains a couple of bug fixes as well as the possibility to take over you Tutanota email from your deleted account and re-use it in your Premium account. Just enter your Premium account email address when deleting your old account.
Do People Really Want to Be Monitored? Swiss Vote for More Surveillance.
Last Sunday Swiss people voted in favour of a surveillance law which will enable Swiss intelligence agencies to tap phones and snoop on email. 65,5% of the Swiss voted in favour of it. This is the first direct vote in favour of more surveillance in Europe. Does that mean the majority of us wants to be monitored?
Release Notes 2.11: Get More Storage and Aliases for Your Encrypted Mailbox
Today we are very happy to present an updated version of Tutanota that brings lots of improvements: As many of you requested, you can now get additional storage and additional aliases. If you are using Tutanota with your custom domain, you can now use catch-all.
Release Notes 2.9.7: Bug fix in web application
Today we have released a bug fix for the Tutanota web application.
Celebrating One Year of Tutanota Premium - Thank You for Your Support!
This week we are celebrating our first Premium release one year ago. The low price for Premium of only 1 Euro per month immediately led to thousands of users upgrading, simply because they wanted to support our privacy-focused email service.
Release Notes: Preparations for Key Length Update
We at Tutanota want to provide you with the most secure email service possible. That's why we have invested a lot of time and effort into updating our encryption algorithms. In the future we will also be looking into ways to make your encrypted mailbox resistant to attacks from quantum computers. Please excuse if we have a short downtime during the release.
Democracies Have Developed Into Surveillance States - Now This Power Could Fall Into the Hands of Extremists
Democracies have created powerful surveillance structures, similar to the ones already being used by current despots. Out of fear from terrorists democratically elected governments around the world have limited everybody's basic rights as citizens. Future authoritarian politicians will use this power against their own enemies: journalists, the opposition, human rights activists, and many, many more.
While Surveillance around the World Is Constantly Growing, Germany Celebrates a Victory for Privacy
Surveillance around the world increases, recently fueled by terrorist attacks in France and Belgium. Sadly, the German government is no exception with Merkel saying 'when in doubt we favor security'. However, the German Constitutional Court has proven again that it is an important defender of our right to privacy.
Tutanota Introduces the Most Private Smartphone: the UnaPhone Zenith
We have partnered with Una to bring to you the most private and secure smartphone: the UnaPhone Zenith. We at Tutanota and Una believe that a phone should not be your personal surveillance device, but simply your personal phone, where all the data remains with you and cannot be exploited.
Release Notes: Fixed Security Bug in Android App
In case you are already using Android 6 with cloud backups switched on and stored your Tutanota password in the app, please update the Tutanota app immediately to version 2.9.6; then change your password.
Encryption for the World - Made in Hanover
Tutanota and Qabel share one goal: Every piece of data has to be encrypted. By developing software that automatically encrypts all data end-to-end, we want to achieve that encryption becomes mainstream. This will enable us to put an end to the illegal mass surveillance online.
Release Notes 2.9.2: Multi-Select and Performance Improvements for Mobile
We are happy to update the mobile apps for our secure email service Tutanota today! Now you can also use multi-select in the Tutanota apps. Please note: It might take a few hours/days until the new app version is pushed to the stores.
1 Million People Encrypt Their Mails with Tutanota
Two years after our first beta release of Tutanota, we have now reached one million users! This is big step for online security because Tutanota automatically encrypts emails end-to-end. Already every second email sent with Tutanota is end-to-end encrypted. This makes illegal mass surveillance of Tutanota mailboxes impossible.
Release Notes 2.8: Inbox Rules Are Now Enabled for All Premium Users
Today we are happy to announce that you can use inbox rules as a Premium feature! After an intensive internal discussion, we have decided that inbox rules is a feature that only heavy email users who are willing to upgrade need. We keep the price for Premium as low as possible so that everyone can afford it: It’s only 1 Euro per month.
Thoughts on 'Why a Private Key Should Not Be Stored on a Central Server'
More than four years ago we started building Tutanota. The challenge we were faced with was automatizing the key exchange so that every user can encrypt their emails without any hassle. But at the same time we had to make sure that we don't have access to the private keys of our users.
Data Privacy Protection: Why Tutanota Is in Germany.
Obviously, Tutanota is located in Germany because it is being built by German engineers. However, we could move our servers to any place in the world. Instead, we decided to place them in Germany. Here is why.
We Are Very Happy to Welcome Meike to Our Team
As several of you have noticed, we have a new addition to our Support Team: Meike. We are very happy to welcome Meike and to have her on board here at Tutanota! Most of your questions to us will be answered by her while technical requests are mainly handled by one of our developers.
Germany Wants to Become Encryption Site Number One
In November, the Interior Minister of Germany, Thomas De Maizière, signed a charta to strengthen confidential communication online. This charta states that is supports and promotes strong end-to-end encryption. While around the world surveillance measures are on the rise, Germany wants to become 'Encryption Site Number One'.
Encrypted Mail Is on the Rise in Germany
This week the German company Vodafone started an encrypted email service for businesses called 'Secure Email'. We welcome their contribution in making our communication as a whole more secure. It is always good to have competition so that we work even harder in making Tutanota the easiest and most secure email service available to everybody!
Get the Tutanota App for Firefox OS
We are thrilled that the first version of the Tutanota app has been released for Firefox OS this week. As the Mozilla Foundation and Tutanota share the same goal of making the Web open, accessible and secure, this is the perfect place for our app.
Birthday Celebration: Our Company Turns Four!
Four years ago we have started our open source project as entrepreneurs at Leibniz University Hanover. Even back then - two years before the Snowden revelations - we were appalled by the common use of surveillance techniques to which email was and is very exposed. We wanted to build the easiest and most secure email service to stop the snooping on all citizens.
Politicians, Stop the Push for More Surveillance. Snooping on Everyone Won’t Protect Us.
After the tragic terrorist attacks in Paris, politicians around the world are - again - pushing for more surveillance laws. In doing so they neglect a simple truth: Mass surveillance does not increase security.
Let's Stop the Swiss Surveillance Law BÜPF
Switzerland plans to revise their data retention law BÜPF so that all communication data (post, email, phone, text messages, ip addresses) can be stored for 12 months. The opponents of this law even say that it would allow the monitoring of mobile phones and the installation of trojans on computers, tablets and mobile phones.
We Apologize: DNS Update Has Led to Downtime for Some Users
A couple of days ago we have initiated an update of our DNSKEY for tutanota.de and app.tutanota.de. Unfortunately, this update has not been synchronized at our registrar's. Due to this, some users currently can access Tutanota only when switching their connecting server.
Germany Just Introduced Data Retention. Politicians Should Be Ashamed.
Today 404 German politicians have passed a data retention law making Germany yet another one in the long list of countries introducing data retention to 'fight terrorism'. Only 25 years after the end of the German surveillance state GDR, this law once again puts all German citizens under heavy surveillance.
Release Notes 2.2.2: Signatures, Design Improvements and More.
We are very happy to release Tutanota 2.2.2 today! We have added a default signature to all your emails, which you can change to your personal favorite. However, you would do us a great favor if you also kept our statement underneath your emails!
Safe Harbor Was Never Safe. Or: Why It Is Important Where Your Data Is Stored.
The recent ruling by the European Court of Justice that declared the safe harbor agreement between the US and the EU as invalid was a great victory for data protection. After the Snowden leaks it became clear that data stored in the US was not safe from surveillance that would be illegal in Europe.
Tutanota Wins IT Security Award 2015 for Best Web Security!
We are very happy to having received the IT Security Award 2015 in the category Web Security. This makes us very happy and also proud.
We Support NPOs: Secure Your Mails With Tutanota Premium at Half Price
Many NPOs fight political, humanitarian or social causes for the betterment of our global societies. We want to support these organizations. All NPOs can get the secure email service Tutanota Premium with a reduction of 50%, so for only 6 Euro per year.
Release Notes - Bug Fixes
Today we are publishing a bug fix release that also includes some improvements to the buying process of Premium. We inform you about every update of the client because after each update, your browser re-loads the client code from our servers. This makes the update-process very transparent to you and increases your security.
Secure Mail Service Tutanota Celebrates One Year Open Source
It is one year since we have published the code of Tutanota as open source, licensed under GPLv3. We are happy about everyone watching our code on Github to make sure that we stay true to our central goal: Protecting the privacy of our users by offering the most secure email service.
Secure Mail Provider Tutanota Reaches Break Even
One month ago we have published our first Premium features for our secure email service Tutanota. The number of users upgrading to Premium is growing continuously. This lets us cover our expenses so that we can continue developing Tutanota independently and with a clear focus on the privacy needs of our users.
Sad News: Lavaboom Will Shut Down
We were rather shocked when we heard about the upcoming Lavaboom shut-down next week. The Lavaboom team was building an encrypted webmail service similar to Tutanota, which seemed very promising. We express our sympathy for Lavaboom and wish their team all the best for the future.
Encryption Is Our Best Chance to Stop Mass Surveillance.
Everybody wants your data. Not just the NSA. Google, Facebook, your phone provider, even your torch app and your local store. Yet, we have to share messages all the time with friends and colleagues, with family and civil services. The only chance we have that this information is not monitored by default is end-to-end encryption.
Germany Wants to Introduce Data Retention: We Say: Hands Off of Our Data!
Germany plans to introduce a data retention law for call data and IP addresses, but not for emails. While such a law is useless in fighting crimes, it puts every citizen under surveillance. This needs to stop!
Secure Mail Service Tutanota Ends Beta After One Year of Testing
After one year of beta testing we are now ready to strip off the diapers! Today Tutanota is leaving its beta phase with the release of brand-new domains: tutanota.com, tuta.io, tutamail.com and keemail.me. Now you can add one free alias to your account.
Privacy 2.0: We Need Weapons, Not Words
When we set out to explore the internet we felt like singing “We are young, we run free” from the Supergrass song Alright (1995). Actually back in the 90s we were young, we were free. Unfortunately it turns out we were green as well. Optimistically we explored all the possibilities of the internet and we gained a lot from it: knowledge, friends, fun.