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  • 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.

  • 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 encrypted mail client of Tutanota! 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.

  • Tutanota now supports 2FA with 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 email 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.

  • Update of your secure mail client: Tutanota 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.