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Arca is an email client designed to be easy to use and fully secure. It allows users to encrypt their emails without storing them or their private keys on a server.
Arca supports PGP/MIME and PGP/Inline standards for encryption, making it compatible with various email providers.
Why I think this tool should be added
They may not be fully open-source but they do allow source viewing upon request. Seems to be the only free and close to open-source iOS email client that supports PGP encryption.
Proton Mail is a email provider while Arca is an email client. It seems to me that it is another email client with an OpenPGP extension downloaded. Their claims that Proton Mail has their users’ private keys is very exaggerated anyways…seems like an apple to oranges comparison to me.
We don’t generate OpenPGP keys on the server, we generate them in the client, and then encrypt them with a key derived from your password (which we never send to the server), and store the encrypted key on the server. Then, when you login again, we fetch and decrypt the private key, and use it in the client. The server never has access to your private keys.
Anyways, let’s go back on topic to Acra. It could be a good recommendation as an iOS email client but I don’t like their marketing though. I guess if someone hosts their own email server and owns an iPhone, Acra could work best for them.
Wouldn’t this email client be ideal for people using email services that support PGP encryption? For example the person having Mailbox.org, Posteo.de, or any other provider that supports PGP.
Marketing is indeed shady to say the least, but I do see their good intention behind it - trying to differentiate between an email client and an email provider with a proprietary client, sort of? Bashing other services to promote my own wouldn’t be my first choice either, so I agree with you.
