Optional keyring access to enable encrypted communications with external users.
Since this service uses OpenPGP it would be nice to have a simple way to import public keys from external users so two-way encrypted communication could be achieved.
Since the symmetric encryption model requires sharing a password it is vulnerable compared to a true keypair model. For people who aren't scared by PGP (It's really not complicated these days), this creates an incentive not to use your service until manual keyring additions can be made.
Simba
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Alex
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For anyone coming across this, I want to note that this is now supported, but is not as user friendly as it could be.
https://proton.me/support/how-to-use-pgp -
Gee
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This is an essential feature ! how am I supposed to reply to someone who made use of my ProtonMail public key to send me an encrypted message via another PGP method ? The current method requiring a passcode is a fall back for people who do not use PGP