Skiff – Privacy-first end-to-end encrypted email
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Re: Skiff – Privacy-first end-to-end encrypted email
#2Is the benefit of this over something like Protonmail or Tutanota the enterprise focus products? As an individual user seems like I may as well pocket the difference, right?
Re: Skiff – Privacy-first end-to-end encrypted email
#3How long is it free for?
Re: Skiff – Privacy-first end-to-end encrypted email
#4The pricing page is confusing to me. It doesn’t mention anything about email in the free tier. It just says:
> Unlimited pages
> Desktop, tablet, and mobile access
> IPFS support
> Full text search
Which seems to be all about the document service, but it also doesn’t mention how much storage I get. I assume it’s not unlimited despite saying “Unlimited pages.”
Also, I can see that Skiff has raised over $14M in VC funds[1], so as a privacy-focused product with a free-tier I think it’s fair to ask what they see as their path to profitability is without compromising either their privacy or their free offering.
1. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/skiff-402f/company_f...
Re: Skiff – Privacy-first end-to-end encrypted email
#5How long is it free for?
As another perspective, I personally prefer products that are paid because it makes me less concerned that my data is the product, and less concerned that the product will disappear or stop improving.
Re: Skiff – Privacy-first end-to-end encrypted email
#6Is the benefit of this over something like Protonmail or Tutanota the enterprise focus products? As an individual user seems like I may as well pocket the difference, right?
Skiff says they encrypt email subjects while protonmail does not. I cannot determine from browsing if they encrypt the sender and receiver addresses.
Skiff's free tier also has a 'generous' free tier with 4 aliases, 10GB of drive (only? combined with email?) storage, and custom domain support (? !)
Re: Skiff – Privacy-first end-to-end encrypted email
#7Their website describes this as open source but their linked repo is under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 [1] so not commonly regarded as open source, but instead source available. They have been made aware of this [2]. Additionally, I think it may only be the front-end parts of their apps that are source available, I'm not sure the server-side parts of their app have sources published.
[1] https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ [2] https://github.com/skiff-org/skiff-apps/issues/94
Re: Skiff – Privacy-first end-to-end encrypted email
#8Could all new and shiny e2ee mail providers please be interoperable? Ie. use PGP or if you are so unhappy with PGP at least base it on matrix.
Re: Skiff – Privacy-first end-to-end encrypted email
#9Is the benefit of this over something like Protonmail or Tutanota the enterprise focus products? As an individual user seems like I may as well pocket the difference, right?
Skiff says they encrypt email subjects while protonmail does not. I cannot determine from browsing if they encrypt the sender and receiver addresses. Skiff's free tier also has a 'generous' free tier with 4 aliases, 10GB of drive (only? combined with email?) storage, and custom domain support (? !)
Hello! I'm one of the founders. We do end-to-end encrypt email subjects. Sender/receiver addresses are not to ensure email goes to the right person. 10 GB drive is used across all Skiff products.
Re: Skiff – Privacy-first end-to-end encrypted email
#10Could all new and shiny e2ee mail providers please be interoperable? Ie. use PGP or if you are so unhappy with PGP at least base it on matrix.
Proton supports interoperability with PGP