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The encrypted email service Tutanota focuses on security and privacy. One of the most important steps when securing your email account is to activate two-factor authentication to prevent email phishing attacks. We've released U2F support in 2017, but at that time were not able to support U2F in Firefox. Now, Firefox has started to support legacy U2F so we were able to add U2F support for Firefox. All Tutanota users can now secure their email account with a hardware token in Firefox.

Our encrypted calendar - Tutanota Calendar - has just been added to your secure email client. This new feature brings amazing privacy improvements. With our encryption expertise, we have not only made sure that all data you enter is encrypted, we are also encrypting notifications for upcoming events. In contrast to other calendar services, we do not know when you have an appointment, where you have an appointment, or with whom you have an appointment. Basically, we remain completely blind to your daily habits.

Most email encryption guides are discouragingly long and complex - just like the process of getting end-to-end encryption set up with an email client such as Thunderbird or Outlook. This email encryption guide is different: It lets you send your first end-to-end encrypted email in seconds, right after you have finished reading. That's a promise!

German schools must not use cloud offerings such as Office 365, G Suite and iCloud due to privacy violations. The Hessian commissioner of Data Protection and Freedom of Information issued a statement that given the missing transparency in regards to data protection and potential third-party access no personal data of German school children must be stored on Microsoft's, Google's or Apple's servers outside of Germany.

Most commonly used open source desktop clients for emails are Thunderbird and Evolution. Now the encrypted email service Tutanota has published its own desktop client in beta. Let's take a first look how it compares to the already established open source email clients, particularly when it comes to secure emails.