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If password is reset, protonmail says I will lose all my mails; Is it rational ?



I recently reset my password; providing the old password any time you remember it allows you to decrypt old emails (in the case of Proton, your password is the AES decryption password for your PGP RSA key [0]).

[0] https://protonmail.com/docs/business-whitepaper.pdf




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