We are happy to let you know that we have updated our new beta client and added a secure password reset feature. This feature enables you to reset your Tutanota login credentials in case you lose your password or your second factor. Learn here how to make use of Tutanota's reset feature to make sure that you never lose access to your secure Tutanota account.

Widely unnoticed, Denmark is the first country to require businesses to encrypt emails containing sensitive personal information end-to-end, starting January 1, 2019. This rule is a strict interpretation of Article 9 of the European GDPR. It is the first time a country has made email encryption mandatory — but it is expected that more countries will follow the Danish example. This comes as yet another indicator that the protection of sensitive personal data must be prioritized by any company doing business in Europe.

We are happy to announce that Tutanota has joined LOT Network, a global non-profit community of companies committed to protecting themselves against patent trolls. We believe that patents, or patent troll law suits, must never be used to stifle innovation. By joining the LOT Network and by working together, all members can cut down on patent litigation, enabling us to focus on what we do best: building great products.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We are very happy to announce that we have started integrating cryptocurrency support to Tutanota! You can donate to Tutanota with Bitcoin (BTC), payment support will follow in the near future.

We are very happy to announce that we have started integrating cryptocurrency support to Tutanota! You can now donate to Tutanota with Monero (XMR).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Para muchos, Internet es Google: búsqueda, correo electrónico, videos - Google es el principal jugador en todos estos campos. Pero Google utiliza todos los datos que recopila a través de sus servicios para publicar anuncios «relevantes» y, para obtener ganancias masivas de los datos que muchos comparten tan alegremente con el gigante de Internet. ¡Ha llegado el momento de detener esta extracción de datos ilimitada y de recuperar nuestro derecho a la privacidad! Aquí hay una guía rápida sobre cómo puede usar Internet sin compartir todos sus datos con Google.

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.

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.

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.

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. Donating our encrypted email services to them, is the most obvious step for us to take.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!

Some users were experiencing a bug that prevented logging in as external recipient. So here is a small bug fix release.

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?

Last week we were notified by Kevin Froman that your secure mailbox was not safe from the "Target Blank" vulnerability. We fixed this severe vulnerability immediately so that it cannot be exploited.

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.

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.

We are happy to announce that we plan to release a completely new client! We are currently improving your secure email service from scratch, which will greatly improve speed and design.

The Islamic terror has reached Europe, and the only weapon we have against it is an ever increasing surveillance of the general public. At least that’s what Politicians want us to believe. But it is wrong.

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.

All Tutanota users - Premium or Free - can get five additional aliases with today's edition of the German magazine Computer Bild. Soon we will also release alias packages so that everybody can add as many aliases as necessary.

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.

We are happy to release Tutanota version 2.9 (desktop only, mobile apps will be updated later). This release includes multi selection for desktop and some bug fixes.

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.

We are happy to announce the release of a draft feature to your Tutanota mailbox. This is great new feature which will improve the usability of Tutanota a lot. Many more features will follow this year!

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.

At Tutanota we are building the fully encrypted communication platform of the future. With our open source project Tutanota we aim at making the web open, secure and accessible for everyone. Now we want you to join our team!

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!

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.

Tuesday (24-11-15) night - starting at 10 pm CET - there is a planned maintenance of our servers. This might lead to short downtimes of Tutanota until Wednesday (25-11-15) morning 6 am CET.

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 are happy to release Tutanota 2.3.1. This release just contains a couple of bug fixes.

We are happy to release Tutanota 2.3. You will now find a spam folder in your inbox.

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.

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.

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.

One of our aims at Tutanota is to fight mass surveillance. End-to-end encrypted emails are important to reach this goal. About 37% of all emails sent from Tutanota are already end-to-end encrypted.

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.

We had a minor bug fix release today. Now you can add custom domain users with less than three characters.

After our major update for enabling Premium features last week, we had to add some minor bug fixes so that all Premium features run smoothly.

We are happy to announce that our growing user base worldwide is translating the Tutanota app as well as the website. Today we launch the Tutanota Homepage and the You & Us page in several languages.

Tutanota did not work properly in Internet Explorer 11 in the Windows enterprise edition. We have fixed this with a quick bug fix release.

As developers we love Linux, GIMP, OpenOffice and all the other great tools out there. When we started our own project - Tutanota - we knew from the start that we would open source it as well.

With Tutanota 1.9.4 you are now able to sign up with three letters only. In addition we've fixed some bugs and prepared our servers for the major release of custom domains in a few weeks.

The recently discovered vulnerability of the TLS/SSL protocol called "Logjam" did not affect your Tutanota emails. Nevertheless, we checked and updated all our cipher suites directly after the publication of the flaw.

At re:publica in Berlin, Eric Grosse (Google Security) said end-to-end encryption of their future pgp-plugin is not meant for common use as people would not be able to benefit from helpful tools like Google's integrated translation.

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.

Following our Android app release in December, we are happy to present the official Tutanota iOS app!

Tutanota uses DANE (DNS-based Authentification of Named Entities). This technology binds the SSL key information to a domain name (DNS) and protects that binding with DNSSEC. DANE makes Man-in-the-Middle attacks practically impossible.