Allow PGP encrypted mails to non protonmail contacts
If I want to send an encrypted mail to a non protonmail E-Mail address I can't do that right now (I mean besides that link thing)
Please add in the contacts section a way to upload the public key of a non protonmail user. That way we would be capable to send and receive PGP (GnuPG) encyrpted mails from others.
Today we’ve launched Address Verification, full PGP support, and a public key server! Now ProtonMail is even more convenient to use and secure against attacks. Learn more: https://protonmail.com/blog/address-verification-pgp-support/
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PGP commented
The modern way of finding the public key for a user on a different service is to use RFC 7929. As ProtonMail already supports DNSSEC, this should be relatively simple to implement.
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nerpherpderp commented
Is there an update on this requested feature? I am a paid supporter. Honestly, I think PM should focus on security-related features, not calendars or adding use of folders vs labels.
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Sander commented
As mentioned before: integration with public pgp servers would be great. This way the public key for a recipient (outside ProtonMail) could be obtained automatically.
And vice versa: my public key on the pgp servers so others can use my key when sending me e-mails. (already done this manually getting the key from v2.protonmail.com) -
Anonymous commented
Yes, please. Joe from New Jersey USA
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Randolph Stanovich commented
When will this happen?
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Anonymous commented
Yes please
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Sam commented
This feature again is a sub-provision of the main feature i.e. PGP interoperability that include both sending/receiving PGP protected emails to third parties and the integrated Key Management.
I and my colleagues are expecting this capability for a long time from protonmail's team, but its isn't happening...
Meanwhile, the solution which does provide these features are mailfence.com (a nice and complete package), scryptmail (another nice solutuons) and riseup.net (another good platform). -
Mick commented
Should be done at the least - as protonmail is have already walked half of the cake (by being OpenPGP based), this should not be a priority.
Otherwise, solutions like mailfence.com or scryptmail are way better to go with. -
Phillip Wilson commented
I hope Protonmail is a higher grading of encryption not a basic AES. And I want upgrade but I don't know enough about boot chain coding and the integers Hastings processing development to a safe place and I had £400 taken from my account today.
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lbort commented
this goes in line with some other requests regarding general non-protonmail-pgp support in both ways. The few friends I have that actually encrypt their mails do so with pgp (locally on their computers) and various mailproviders, gmail being one of them. If I switch to protonmail, I want to be able to still write them and get mails from them which are encrypted. I can do that up to now, using thunderbird and a regular mail provider. But with protonmail I can only recieve encrypted mails (I exported my public key and can send it to them), but not send encrypted messages to non-protonmail pgp users. This has to work before I am willing to pay for this service.
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PM commented
Is this coming soon?
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Crypt O commented
"Would be really really nice to be able to "at least" sign our emails to non proton-mail users."
THIS
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Remi Ferrand commented
Would be really really nice to be able to "at least" sign our emails to non proton-mail users.
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Quintus Curtius commented
I also agree with amilopowers.
1. Ability to add (and lookup on various key repositories) a contact's PGP public key.
2. Emailing this contact, you should have the option to encrypt with contacts public key. The email would encrypt then be sent. I have seen this function implemented with Java. Countermail has such a feature. -
ProtonMail User commented
ProtonMail already decrypts PGP-encrypted email sent from a non-ProtonMail address. When replying to such an email, it would make sense to PGP encrypt the response by default. This would be a reasonable expectation of both parties in the email exchange.
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Brian commented
I'm frustrated that I don't have access to my ProtonMail secret key, and therefore can't sign a message to prove ownership of it. This is part of the protocol used by keybase.io to let people discover your public key.
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Anonymous commented
Why not a direct Application for PC that circumvents the use of a commonly available browser? Wouldn't this increase security?
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amilopowers commented
@John: I dont know if that Mailvelope is secure.
But what I know is that Google Chrome must be insecure. Why are you considering using Protonmail and not Gmail if you use it in the Google tracker browser?
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John Hallam commented
I have discovered that I can use the Chrome/Firefox Plugin Mailvelope within Protonmail. Instead of using the Protonmail encryption way, I use the Mailvelope way within Protonmail (I'm using Chrome). It would be interesting to hear the Pros/Cons for what I do with Mailvelope?
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Yulia commented
This a feature I'd greatly appreciate as none of my contacts use protonmail email addresses. I'd be able to use encryption for all emails I send, not just to close contacts that I am able to inform the decryption password of. This new feature would enable me to send job resumes securely, emails to colleagues, emails to my doctor or government representative. It is simply too tedious or virtually impossible to do this now. I have to tolerate the loss of privacy and security.