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Posteo, Mailbox.org, Tutanota, and ProtonMail compared

More Secure Email

Conclusions

Absolute security does not, and probably will not ever, exist in IT – certainly not as long as governments and their services try to control users' data. Only recently, President Obama called for back doors in encryption software [26].

The providers presented here considerably improve security and anonymity compared with the big freemailers, without requiring too much detailed knowledge. However, this will not be enough if you're the next Edward Snowden: In this case, you should look at much more complicated applications, such as I2P messenger [27] or Pond [28].

Infos

  1. Lavabit: http://lavabit.com/
  2. ProtonMail security contributors: https://blog.protonmail.ch/protonmail-security-contributors
  3. HSTS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security
  4. PFS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_secrecy
  5. Posteo: https://posteo.de/en
  6. Z3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z3_%28computer%29
  7. K-9 Mail: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fsck.k9&hl=en
  8. Posteo criminal complaint: https://posteo.de/en/site/transparency_report_2013#tbtabellen
  9. Sustainability at Posteo: https://posteo.de/en/site/sustainability
  10. Posteo on GitHub: https://github.com/posteo
  11. Mailvelope: https://www.mailvelope.com/
  12. Two-factor authentication: https://posteo.de/en/blog/new-two-factor-authentication-available
  13. Full encryption: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_encryption
  14. Mailbox.org: https://mailbox.org/en/
  15. Mailbox.org Office: https://mailbox.org/en/your-office/
  16. OX Drive for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.openexchange.drive.vanilla
  17. Services at Mailbox.org: https://mailbox.org/en/general-terms-and-conditions/
  18. Tutanota: https://tutanota.com/
  19. Tutao on GitHub: https://github.com/tutao/tutanota
  20. Tutanota and Outlook: http://blog.tutanota.de/email-encryption-outlook-tutanota-starter/2014/08/12/
  21. ProtonMail: https://protonmail.ch
  22. Funding ProtonMail: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/protonmail
  23. Gmail encryption: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/06/making-end-to-end-encryption-easier-to.html
  24. Yahoo mail encryption: http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/113708033335/user-focused-security-end-to-end-encryption
  25. Posteo transparency report: https://posteo.de/en/site/transparency_report_2013
  26. Obama Wants Tech Companies to Install Backdoors for Government Spying: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/01/19/obama_wants_backdoors_in_encrypted_messaging_to_allow_government_spying.html
  27. I2P messenger: https://geti2p.net/en/docs/how/tech-intro
  28. Pond: https://pond.imperialviolet.org/

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