Secure Email Provider Tutanota Goes Open Source
A number of "NSA proof" e-mail services are currently in later stages of development or private beta, but there's one that seems to be ahead of the game: Germany-based Tutanota. The end-to-end encrypted e-mail provider announced Tuesday that they had released their source code on GitHub, claiming to be the first operational, secure e-mail application to go open source. Now, Tutanota, who first launched internationally in July, says they hope the community will take to the task of inspecting their code, ensuring it is of proper integrity, and also hope that users will make requests for....
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