I’ve gotta be real with you, @Tutanota: I love your work and your company, but you need to add Web Key Directory compatibility.

At this point, PGP/WKD support for a privacy-focused email provider has to be as fundamental as supporting TLS. Proton does not own PGP.

I simply cannot in good conscience recommend Tuta over Proton to people generally speaking, knowing that Proton users benefit from E2EE when they email me on my self-hosted email servers, as well as when they email plenty of other providers (Posteo, Mailbox.org). And that is a shame, because trust me I would love to be able to point anywhere other than Proton when I’m asked this.

Keep your superior encryption for intra-Tuta emails, absolutely. Give it a different UI indicator so people know the difference, I don’t care. At the end of the day, not at least silently supporting in the background the only decentralized email encryption method we have is antithetical to what email is all about: interoperability.

People have been asking you about PGP for 8+ years, I know Autocrypt used to be on your roadmap and now it seemingly no longer is.

There is a clear winner now, and it’s WKD.

@jonah using email in 2025 is some real buyer beware territory. Most people should use signal or similar robust technology.

@jonah having seen your profile now… you should know this lol. Why should any mouth breather be encouraged to use anything that can fail this badly. People aren’t smart especially as a collectivity.

@jack where do you think I said any of this? Acknowledging that people send emails is not the same as encouraging people to send emails.

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@jonah @jack I like emails because I can say more in one message and I can to or cc to multiple people at once.
It would be cool if that could be made as secure as Signal.

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