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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: RoastPotatoes on Tue, 16 June 2015, 17:02:24

Title: Protonmail the Encrypted Email Service is Now Open
Post by: RoastPotatoes on Tue, 16 June 2015, 17:02:24

For those who wanted an encrypted email experience you can use the link protonmail.ch/privacyforall (http://protonmail.ch/privacyforall) to sign up.

Title: Re: Protonmail the Encrypted Email Service is Now Open
Post by: suicidal_orange on Tue, 16 June 2015, 17:22:52

Thanks - I signed up :)

Title: Re: Protonmail the Encrypted Email Service is Now Open
Post by: Tiramisuu on Tue, 16 June 2015, 17:32:08

Unless keys and cipher text is encrypted client side with no intervention and the cipher is open source and crc'ed it is tough to have faith.

Then once I share my public key no one will use it.   This leaves me with a great way to sign documents but no privacy

Title: Re: Protonmail the Encrypted Email Service is Now Open
Post by: flabbergast on Tue, 16 June 2015, 17:54:41

Cool, thanks!

While I haven't found implementation details on the site, the basic scheme can actually work the way they claim. Of course it would be better if we could look at the code that's used client side to make sure there aren't any tricks.