Court orders encrypted email biz Tutanota to build a backdoor in user's mailbox, founder says 'this is absurd'

Court orders encrypted email biz Tutanota to build a backdoor in user's mailbox, founder says 'this is absurd'

Tutanota has been served with a court order to backdoor its encrypted email service – a situation founder Matthias Pfau described to The Register as "absurd."


Our friends at Heise reported auf Deutsch that a court in Germany last month ordered Tutanota to help investigators monitor the contents of a user's encrypted mailbox. The site has until the end of the year to add functionality to perform this surveillance.


Such a peephole would destroy the unique selling point of Tutanota: it encrypts all data stored in people's mailboxes in such a way that it can't retrieve the contents beyond some metadata. It also allows people to wrap their outgoing and incoming messages in end-to-end encryption that, again, Tutanota can't break.


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