{"id":374583,"date":"2026-08-08T03:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=374583"},"modified":"2026-08-08T03:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:44:13","slug":"signal-still-beats-encrypted-email-proton-mail-and-tuta-cant-solve-its-biggest-flaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/signal-still-beats-encrypted-email-proton-mail-and-tuta-cant-solve-its-biggest-flaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Signal still beats encrypted email: Proton Mail and Tuta can\u2019t solve its biggest flaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Encrypted email has moved back into the conversation in 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/proton-mail.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Proton Mail<\/a> and Tuta both offer <strong>end-to-end encryption by default<\/strong>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/gmail-notifier.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Gmail<\/a>, Outlook, and Yahoo Mail still don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo Mail usually encrypt messages <strong>in transit and at rest<\/strong>, but they keep the keys themselves. That means those providers can still access the contents if they&#8217;re compelled to. With real end-to-end encryption, only you and the recipient can read the message. Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo have generally put account security, spam filtering, and compatibility ahead of maximum privacy.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you want email that&#8217;s actually private, switching providers makes sense. Still, the market isn&#8217;t exactly stable. Tuta says it has <strong>more than 10 million<\/strong> users and is working on post-quantum cryptography and encrypted cloud storage. <a href=\"https:\/\/skiff.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Skiff<\/a>, which reportedly had nearly 2 million users, shut down after Notion acquired it in February 2024.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Email&#8217;s open, federated design also makes key exchange, identity checks, and PGP much harder to deal with than they are in <a href=\"https:\/\/signal.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Signal<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a>. So even with estimates putting the encrypted email market at <strong>more than $9 billion in 2025<\/strong>, and end-to-end encryption at about 35%, messaging apps are still the better option for highly sensitive conversations.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can get <strong>encrypted email<\/strong> through Proton Mail or Tuta on the web and on mobile.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Encrypted email has moved back into the conversation in 2025. Proton Mail and Tuta both offer end-to-end encryption by default, and Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo Mail still don&#8217;t. Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo Mail usually encrypt messages in transit and at rest, but they keep the keys themselves. That means those providers can still access the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/signal-still-beats-encrypted-email-proton-mail-and-tuta-cant-solve-its-biggest-flaw\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Signal still beats encrypted email: Proton Mail and Tuta can\u2019t solve its biggest flaw&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9339,"featured_media":374582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-374583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9339"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374584,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374583\/revisions\/374584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374583"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=374583"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=374583"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=374583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}