We are happy to announce that the Leibniz University Hanover and the secure email service Tutanota have jointly acquired EU funding for a
research project in post-quantum cryptography. Cryptography experts estimate that quantum computers will be able to break widely used
encryption algorithms in a few years. With the progress in developing quantum computers, it is time to
future-proof Tutanota's encryption algorithms against potential attacks from quantum computers.
Encrypted messages are on the rise, particularly since WhatsApp and iMessage encrypt messages by default - similar to
Tutanota's encrypted emails. But
authorities all over the world keep pushing for encryption backdoors, ignoring the fact that this would substantially
harm everybody's security. Now, the conservative Politician Horst Seehofer (CSU) wants to force
WhatsApp, Threema and Apple to implement backdoors. The crypto wars continue, and we have to keep fighting for our right
to privacy and for secure emails and messages.
We are happy to announce that we have updated our encrypted email service Tutanota: You can now customize
the notification email sent to external
recipients of your encrypted emails. This feature is available as a whitelabel feature. In the past, lots of
businesses using Tutanota to send secure emails have requested to configure the notification email to their customers.
Today we are launching Secure Connect – an open source encrypted contact form. Secure Connect is a great tool for any
website that wants to offer an encrypted email channel for a secure and confidential communication with anyone directly on
their website. To support Press Freedom, Secure Connect is free for news sites
so that whistleblowers can get in touch with journalists securely.
Tutanota has implemented support for Let's Encrypt for whitelabel domains to make the issuing and updating of
certificates automatic for our users. Let's Encrypt is a great free service run
by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) with the aim of creating
a more secure and privacy-respecting Web. We have asked Sarah from Let's Encrypt why a free certificate authority (CA)
was and is necessary and how Let's Encrypt has changed the Web.
We are excited to let you know that we have updated Tutanota. It now comes with an even faster search feature for your
encrypted emails & contacts and with support for Let's Encrypt for whitelabel domains. We have also updated the lanuages in
Tutanota: Newly supported languages such as Russian, Japanese, Ukranian and Turkish are now 100% complete!
We are happy to announce that we have released a performance improvement on the server this week. This will make sending of
emails much faster, particularly when you are sending emails to several recipients and with large attachments. Now we
are working on integrating Let's Encrypt for whitelabel domains.
Since January 1, 2019, a strict interpretation of the GDPR requires Danish businesses to protect personal data in
emails with adequate encryption. Praised by privacy advocates around the world, this also raises a lot of questions:
Is the use of end-to-end encryption in emails now compulsory for Danish businesses? And
how does this affect businesses outside of Denmark?
We are happy to announce that non-profit organizations (NPOs) can get the business version of Tutanota free of charge.
At Tutanota we believe that we as societies can do better when it comes to human rights. We are
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.
We are happy to let you know that we have updated Tutanota: Your encrypted mailbox now comes with unread email counters per folder, you
can use Tutanota in many more languages such as Arabic, Latvian, and Persian, and you can now check the version
of Tutanota that you are using under Settings. Read the full post to see what features we have added and what is to come next.
On international Data Privacy Day, it is time to realize why privacy matters: The freedoms and values that
we enjoy in democratic societies are under threat.
Mass surveillance and political tendencies towards autocracy increasingly undermine the foundation of
democracy: freedom of speech and the right to privacy.
Let’s understand why privacy matters and how everyone of us can change our societies for the better by fighting for
our right to privacy.
