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What are your thoughts on protonmail?

• thayne 6y ago
  Not the parent, but protonmail is still just more hacking to work around a broken system. It is a valient effort, but to really fix email the whole thing needs to be replaced.
• GekkePrutser 6y ago
  I'm with thayne above on this one.. Protonmail just offers secure storage on their system but they still see the external incoming emails unless they're PGP encrypted. They make that easy, but still. PGP didn't take off in 30 years, it's just too complex. Tools can help that but the weak point is its key management.
• mosselman 6y ago
  As far as I know, and I could be wrong, ProtonMail wraps around pgp inbox encryption. Many providers have exactly this service already. The difference seems to be that ProtonMail don’t allow you to use normal imap and your own client with pgp, but force you to use their client. This is probably a trade-off made to protect users against them selves in one way (disabling encryption for grandpa) and hiding the non tech-savvy from all the technical details. Again, many assumptions here. So, to me, mentioning proton here doesn’t make sense as the underlying tech: smtp & pgp have existed and been industry standard for a long time. So there is not issue of adoption.