I’ve been using Tutanota for a while now. Been interested in people’s opinions about Tutanota and Protonmail.

  • asudox@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    I am sure that Tutanota does not use any custom encryption algorithm. It is clearly stated in the FAQ that they use RSA (with PFS) and AES to encrypt emails exchanged between Tutanota users. https://tutanota.com/encryption There’s even a section which discusses why they do not use PGP. So it’s not like they can’t add it, they just don’t because it lacks “important requirements”. Plus they even are slowly developing a protocol that is post-quantum secure to encrypt their emails with.

    • sanpo@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      I’m not really saying that what Tutanota does is insecure, but historically doing security on your own instead of using established standards has not been a winning move.
      Plus their unwillingness to open source it and not sharing the audits just doesn’t inspire my confidence.

      Overall they’re probably fine, but these are some of the main reasons I ultimately chose Proton instead.

      BTW, they’re not “slowly developing” post-quantum encryption, they’re just saying they may do that at some point in the future - which everyone will have to do anyway when we get to this point.

    • dngray@lemmy.oneM
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      1 year ago

      I am sure that Tutanota does not use any custom encryption algorithm. It is clearly stated in the FAQ that they use RSA (with PFS) and AES to encrypt emails exchanged between Tutanota users. https://tutanota.com/encryption

      These are only primitive algorithms, the actual implementation is custom and specific to Tutanota, which mean it will only work with Tutanota as nothing else will implement it.

      There is no way to do key distribution outside of Tutanota’s service.