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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 have to say that since Protonmail has taken this stance on metadata and since they recently came out in favor of Net Neutrality I am seriously thinking that they me be a form of controlled opposition. They lull clients into thinking they are using a secure medium only to be blatantly supporting the spying government agencies through passively continuing to provide them with metadata and acting as a megaphone for invasive government control over the internet. I, for one, am going to start using Scryptmail as they encrypt everything and Sergie doesn't seem to be a USGOV shill.