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Proton Ditches Mastodon (web.archive.org)

submitted 3 days ago by ramenu@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Tuta isnt really a replacement for proton. They dont even support PGP encryption, which is kinda the whole point of proton.

[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tuta uses standard algorithms also being used by PGP (AES and RSA or ECC) for encrypting the entire mailbox. In addition, Tuta Mail already uses post-quantum cryptography (Kyber) for quantum safe accounts, which is still a work in progress for PGP. Furthermore, Tuta does not use an implementation of PGP itself because PGP lacks important requirements that we have for Tuta

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[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Read the last sentence. They dont use PGP for emails.

Find me how you can send PGP emails to someone off tuta. You can't. They disabled it.

With proton its one click.

[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

They give a reason.

And, if this is what we are talking about, sending a PGP email to a non Proton still requires more than one click and agreement equal, in my experience, to sharing a password for encrypted emails on Tuta.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 20 hours ago

Proton has an API for getting the PGP keys of all their users. I can send any proton user an encrypted email, and I attach my public key to the email (Thunderbird does this by default).

Then the user only has to click the "trust key" button and all their future emails will be encrypted to my PGP key. It's 1 click for them.

Tutanota has no way to do this. I read why, but its nonsense. PGP for e2ee is better than no e2ee. Tuta is naked and not a replacement for proton.