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  • perishthethought@lemm.eetoPrivacy@lemmy.mlIs Tuta a good alternative to gmail?
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    3 days ago

    I’ve used Tuta for more than 4 years. It’s a solid choice if you accept a couple few things:

    • they’re a small company, doing their best to survive.

    • you have to use their client apps. They take security very seriously and assume all of their users do as well.

    • prices might go up every few years but I am still paying my original rate, for my original features.

    • the search function does work but is very slow.

    But otherwise, I’m very happy and expect to stay with them for the forseeable. Good luck in your search.








  • Quite a lot of cryptography detail in their blog post, not all of which do I understand. Curious to find out what the community thinks of this …

    For instance:

    We’ve re-built the Tuta cryptographic protocol from the ground up and are now upgrading our encryption using quantum-resistant algorithms together with conventional algorithms (Kyber in combination with AES 256 and ECDH x25519 in a hybrid protocol) for our asymmetric public key encryption of emails

    I know Bruce Schneier says rolling your own Crypto is hard and most will get it wrong. So is it concerning that they made their own encryption protocol?


  • Wouldn’t that be only between Tutanota users anyway?

    Just since nobody else answered your question: No. A Tuta user can send an encrytped message to anyone (including non-Tuta users). Those users then get an unecrypted message, saying “Click here to read your message”, which takes them to the Tuta site, which lets them see the message. The non-Tuta user can then reply to the Tuta user as they like.

    But you’re right about the UI. Tuta users have to use the Tuta UIs (mobile, desktop, web).





  • Yeah, I want to say, Bandcamp was sold to a new company last year but so far, it’s pretty much the same as before. I can see someome saying they have some beef with them, but I still use them fairly often, to support lesser known bands when I can. And they schedule special Friday events where they don’t collect any fees - all music sold on those days goes straight to the artists. Sooo much better than the evil Spotify.

    I would love to know of a good alternative to Bandcamp, but don’t rule it out entirely, IMO.