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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Anonymous commented
It is troublesome work to let a friend of the transmission input a password.
HushMail and CounterMail are encrypted mutually and are very convenient.
Such a technique is necessary for ProtonMail. -
user commented
Not familiar with PGP.
How would I be able to use this integration with my blackberry smart phone. Do I need a pgp app for email access? Please explain PGP integration -
James commented
Agree, it defeats the purpose if I'm on proton, somebody else on lavaboom or unseen.
But at least you give the links, that's a band aid, but needs to be some sort of way to do it
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Pa commented
+1 for this. An integration is badly needed!
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Ed commented
Frictionless interoperability between various secure email providers is a force multiplier. Be able, using PGP or otherwise, to send secure email between Tutanota, Hushmail, Startmail, Lavaboom, Silent Circle, PGP, etc. While having islands of secure communication is nice, I usually have few users in my contacts who are using the same service and therefore very little is sent securely.
Another method would be to _require_ STARTTLS for known secure email servers or servers which always use STARTTLS (like gmail, yahoo). This is not e2e but would remove a vulnerability of Opportunistic Encryption.
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Anonymous commented
There have been many secure email providers showing up recently. If we end up with many duplicate encrypted mail services that can't securely communicate with each other, then the world is no better off.
Please cooperate with those to support secure emails between users. All encrypted email providers need to cooperate to make sure they are inter-operable.
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Markus Jansson commented
Yes, absolutely, similiar that they have on HushMail.
EXCEPT do it - and whole login & box decrypting - using browser add-on! This way the encryption cannot be bypassed and your keys stolen if and when ProtonMail servers are compromised. Thats what happened to HushMail! We should learn from what happened to HushMail and not make the same mistake as they did!
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Anonymous commented
Only way to communicate privately (both ways) with non-Protonmail users. Other private email providers already offer it: Countermail, Startmail, Unseen... even Gmail will soon be offering its optional End-to-end service (i.e. PGP encryption).
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Anonymous commented
Optional PGP asymmetric encryption is a must, unless the number of ProtonMail users approaches that of Gmail, Hotmail, etc. Otherwise, fluent encrypted communication with most (non Protonmail) contacts will simply not happen.
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AdminProton (Admin, Proton) commented
Open Pgp Integration