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		bepvte on May 8, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Fights Back Protonmail advertises special end to end encryption thats only available when sending emails to other protonmail users. Others get the standard TLS that every provider uses. Recently they added a feature convert emails a link to a page that asks the non-protonmail user for a password (not a private key or login) and then decrypts the email in the browser, which I find pretty worthless.

pdimitar on May 8, 2019 | [–]

That's suboptimal but worthless might be too strong a word to describe it.

It's definitely better than nothing.

The proprietary thing does not look good I admit. But maybe they think the open stack is easy to pwn?

bepvte on May 8, 2019 | [–]

Oh, and they dont support PGP with non protonmail users, locking you into their proprietary junk.

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