Hello and welcome back to Cloudwards.net.
My name is Mauricio and in this video we’re going to be looking at our picks for the most
secure email providers.
For the sake of brevity, we’re only looking at the top three options here, but I’ll
leave a link in the description below to our full article that gives more detail and covers
some additional email providers.
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Starting us off with the number one spot on our list is ProtonMail.
Run by the came company as ProtonVPN, ProtonMail is a very user-friendly encrypted email service
that offers easy to use apps for iOS and Android making it a good choice for everyday use while
on the go.
ProtonMail offers excellent security with zero-knowledge encryption options that include
the popular and open-source OpenPGP making it a reliable and trustworthy option.
On top of this, ProtonMail is based in Switzerland, which has excellent data privacy laws.
ProtonMail offers a free plan that gives you five hundred megabytes of email storage for
a single user and allows for up to hundred and fifty messages a day.
The paid plans can be a bit on the expensive side, but the higher tier plans such as the
professional and visionary options support up to thousands of users, making ProtonMail
a good option for teams and businesses.
Next, we have Tutanota.
While it doesn’t offer OpenPGP, Tutanota still has strong encryption options such as
RSA and AES and also enforces the same zero-knowledge end-to-end encryption like ProtonMail.
Tutanota’s free plan beats out ProtonMail by offering a full gigabyte of storage for
a single user, but the paid plan options are a bit less desirable.
The basic plans themselves aren’t too expensive, but where the cost starts to add up is with
Tutanota’s various add-ons.
More storage, email aliases, and even features such as whitelabels and sharing are all things
you can expect to be paying extra for if you’re going to use Tutanota.
This can quickly wipe out the savings that the stock plans initially offer.
Finally, our third pick is Mailfence, which aims to offer a more comprehensive suite of
features to make it more of a daily driver like G suite than just a specialized encrypted
email service.
These features include things like a private calendar and file storage.
Additionally, Mailfence offers a lot of customization and even lets you choose to send unencrypted
emails as well as encrypted ones.
Unlike ProtonMail and Tutanota, Mailfence does not offer AES encryption, instead opting
for the use of RSA and ECC.
However, it does still use zero-knowledge local encryption for your emails, making it
very secure and private.
Mailfence offers users five hundred megs of email storage and five hundred megs of document
storage for free and several paid plans to expand this.
While each of these services has its own nuanced pros and cons that we’ve only been able
to scratch the surface of here in this video, the great news is that all three of the email
providers we looked at offer a free plan.
We urge you to take advantage of this fact and try out several of these providers to
see which one has the features that suit you most at an agreeable price.
I’ll leave links to the free trials, as well as to the more comprehensive written
article on our website, in the description below for you to check out.
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