Features

Discover how Mailvelope enhances secure communication for businesses and individuals.

What Mailvelope can do for you

Mailvelope is an Open Source browser add-on that securely encrypts your webmail communications.

For companies

Seamless and user-friendly integrations with Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Nextcloud.

For email providers

Add an extra layer of security to your webmail product with our flexible API.

For individual users

Use Mailvelope standalone or integrate it with providers like WEB.de or GMX for secure communications.

The key to confidential communications

Business communications require the highest level of trust, privacy, and confidentiality.

While encryption is the answer to that challenge, we often dismiss it due to unavailability or poorimplementation in the tools we use. Mailvelope to the rescue!

Secure inbox

Encrypt and decrypt, sign and verify - unlock confidential communications for your business.

Joy of use

Encrypted communication is now as easy as just clicking "Send"! Discover the best userexperience for your team.

Encrypt them all

Whatever your environment - the Mailvelope browser add-on integrates seamlessly with its mail component.

Optimize Your Email Security with Mailvelope Options

Mailvelope is an open-source browser add-on for encrypting webmail.

Standalone, which adds basic encryption capabilities to any webmail but is limited in features, and Integrations, where Mailvelope blends seamlessly with services like Google Workspace or Outlook 365. The integration option not only provides a smoother and more seamless user experience but also adds valuable features to enhance functionality, making it the ideal choice for a robust email encryption setup.

Features Overview

Standalone

Integration

Basic Functionality

Encrypt and decrypt mail

Sign emails and verify signatures

Encrypt and decrypt files

Attachment Handling

Seamless attachment handling in webmail interface

PGP/MIME support (encrypt and sign email with attachments in one structure)

Ease of Use

Automatic public/private key creation

Automatic public key upload

Automated recipient public key detection when composing email

Integrated key generation in webmail UI

Integrated user interface: Compose & Encrypt / Decrypt & Read buttons are part of webmail application

Direct encryption in webmail Compose component

Secure Inbox

Phishing detection via signature mismatch

Key Management

WKD (Web Key Directory) protocol for easy and user-friendly key exchange

Store public keys on Mailvelope Key Server

External key server support (like keys.openpgp.org)

Autocrypt support (use key from Autocrypt headers)

Easy import of existing keys

Private key backup & recovery

Multiple keyring support

Mobile device keyring sync

Backup and Recovery

Public/private key export capabilities

Keyring export

Key or password recovery via recovery code

Security Standards

Zero trust encryption (webmail provider can not read or decrypt emails)

Webmail provider can not access private key

Browser-based E2E encryption

Uses PGP (OpenPGP.js or GnuPG)

Personalized security background to safeguard against attacks

GDPR compliance

Highest security standards (audited by BSI and others)

Business

Organization-wide key support