Phone Number alias / masking
It would be nice to have a app from Proton which gives a virtual phone number. (Like Google Voice)
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andy commented
Great idea, from the people that build in security
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andy commented
great Idea, I second that
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Anonymous commented
I agree, an alternative to Burner App, Sideline, or Google Voice would be great. Those apps all work well, but having ProtonMail's encryption and privacy, privacy we know and trust, would be something i would use personally, but also on a corporate level.
With the increased requirement to use phone numbers online, which give anyone with that phone number the keys to the castle, this would be a huge gain for the overall privacy of the protonmail user.
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Jonas Sandberg commented
hello! I would really appreciate if you incorporated the feature of a Virtual mobile number inside proton mail, and better still if you could subscribe to multiple numbers from a list of countries, you need mobil. numbers for all sorts of registrations and verifications online and now you have to rely on outside systems. if the could be used for two-way-ommuncation with sms sent FROM protomail also it would be perfect. I want to recive all sms inside protmail. I would be willing to pay 100 euros/year for one number and maybe 50 euros/year for additional numbers.
my best regards Jonas -
Anonymous commented
I would really like to see Proton implement a SMS/MMS enabled voice service (similar to Google Voice) that would allow Proton Paid users the ability to also get a phone number in their region and have the opportunity to make voice calls, txt's, etc.
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Anonymous commented
This would be a great service... trying to completely disconnect from google, and the sooner the better. Softphone and/or adapter to connect standard telephone.
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Anonymous commented
I`m suggest you ProtonVoice - voip dialer with zrtp and pgp support, open source.
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Heiko Ernst commented
Do you have voip ?
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brian commented
Signal has both voice and video calling now.
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Acronymous commented
...anyone have experience/info with Silent Circle silentphone...?
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Acronymous commented
Still looking... agree that ongoing events underscore the need for the encrypted voice company to be outside of the USA.
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Alex commented
@Laurent: What is wrong with Signal? For example that the Signal requires tons of access rights when being installed on the phone including your phone number, email, etc. (so far from anonymous). Signal can't be installed on anything else than smartphone - i.e. no way to install it on tablet. Last but not least it's American company. Given the current legislative, you have to believe/hope, that Signal is secure. Yes, it's open source, but current hack of WhatsApp, which is using the Signal protocol, shows that it's not 100% secure. If the Signal is forced to cooperate with secret services, they can never tell you without breaking the law. They could only close as Lavabit did.
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Peter commented
Try Jitsi ! jitsi.org
It comes with a free xmpp/Jabber account and let you make encrypted voice and video calls. (secured by SRTP and ZRTP)
It is opensource, end-to-end encrypted and you can chose the ciphers AES128,256 or Twofish 128 or 256.
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Kasper commented
This would be nice. But to be honest. Id rather have proton mail first focus its efforts onto creating a AAA online webmail service with all the simplicity, security and convenience incorporated. Its pretty super already... but there's room for improvement. There are options right now available for encrypted chat & Talk (ex Signal). Yes call quality isn't the greatest. But if you truly want to have a talk of the record maybe it is best to that face to face :) Isn't FaceTime encrypted too (if you are on iOS that is)?
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ole commented
There are some application but a lot of them give as bad connection,noise,interrupt
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Anonymous commented
@Laurent
everything is wrong with Signal. Starting with the fact that they have had no iOS developer for almost a year now. The android app is FULL of bugs, calls disconnect every couple of minutes, etc etc. Moxie doesn't listen to the community, PRs are turned down all the time, bug issues on github are closed because "it's never OWS's fault". Users are leaving Signal because they are frustrated to see bugs unsolved, PRs rejected, only ios and android supported (when they have explicitly rejected PR about ubuntu phones and they've said they don't plan on coding for any other platforms), bad community managment, and I could go on forever.
We need a serious company with a serious funds managment like Protonmail to do this kind of thing if we want it to be successful. Signal is for fanboys who don't understand that the world revolves around money, and you need developers to build stuff (more than just one developer on android and one for a browser extension).
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Anonymous commented
The old GSM phone calls were all encrypted - some with weak encryption. Some internet calls may be encrypted (a part of the way), but still intercepted by the operator when needed. Encryption alone does not mean much. Sometimes it must be both strong and end-to-end.
Who is your adversary? A neighbor or the Russian empire?
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Laurent commented
Dear Jason, what's wrong with Signal ? https://whispersystems.org/
It only works from a smartphone, but that's not an issue for me at least. I have been using their app for messaging since a while and a made a few calls with it, perfectly fine. Sure, something with "ProtonMail" logo might feel more secure.
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jason.burkett@gmail.com commented
Looking for a way to conduct encrypted phone conversation similar to Google voice
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Michael M commented
It is a large feature to augument yes, but ive postulated this for post beta relaeses