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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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I believe it would be even more useful with mobile app and photos sync feature. Sometimes I do more than one photo of the same thing and then I choose which one looks the best. I don't want my phone to already encrypt all of them and start sending right away. Let me first delete some of them.
Another scenario: I'm recording a video to share it via some messaging app. I post it to a chat, but the upload is very slow. Why? Because I have 2 concurrent uploads at the same time: Proton Drive and messaging app. And in reality I don't even want to upload it to Proton, I want to delete it after I already sent it.