fabian
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We have given this quite a bit of thought, but at the present moment, it is not clear the advantages would outweigh the disadvantages.
The biggest problem is search. Encrypting all metadata would break metadata search entirely on the web client as there is still no efficient way to handle search of encrypted data within a browser.
Secondly, metadata encryption’s value from a privacy standpoint is also somewhat dubious. Because we ultimately must deliver the message to the recipient, we must know who the recipient is. At the current time, there still isn’t any proven and viable way to work around this.
Metadata encryption is an area of continued research for us, and when the opportunity arises and the technology for doing this matures, we will definitely implement it in ProtonMail.
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Absolutely! Please join Dark Mail Alliance to provide Meta-Data encryption with mails leaving the Protonmail infrastructure when Protonmail users need to communicate with people outside of ProtonMail-Ecosystem
Please also Implement PGP-Support, as many users outside of Protonmail rely on PGP for end to end encryption. Warn users about their exposure of MetaDate being intercepted or Endusers foreign account is using a less secure service where privacy can't be guaranteed (making users aware, when they are exposing themselves by employing a practice that is less secure than what we learned to enjoy, expect and rely on within this exceptional service!)