Tuta also locks you down with their lack of IMAP support. You can only use their client. At least Proton has a bridge and allows you to use your own GPG key.
Proton does PGP for you. There are countless standards compliant mail services where you could use your own email client and do your own PGP -Thunderbird is probably the easiest but It’s a trade-off.
What open standard (that are not used by proton too)?
If anything proton uses GPG while tuta uses a custom system (which is why they also encrypt the subject).
Both being unsafe seems the most probably state of things.
Still, something unsafe can still be safer than every other option ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Why choose if there are other solutions
(like tuta)that use open standardsTuta also locks you down with their lack of IMAP support. You can only use their client. At least Proton has a bridge and allows you to use your own GPG key.
I thought proton was the only one with a lack of imap, thanks for the info
Proton does PGP for you. There are countless standards compliant mail services where you could use your own email client and do your own PGP -Thunderbird is probably the easiest but It’s a trade-off.
What open standard (that are not used by proton too)? If anything proton uses GPG while tuta uses a custom system (which is why they also encrypt the subject).